Burcott Cottage Cobblers Cottage Post Office And Stores

SO 4058 - 4158 EARISLAND CP A 44 (south side) Eardisland

11/60 Post Office and Stores, 20.2.53 The Burcott and Cobblers Cottage (formerly listed as Burcott Cottages)

GV II

Three houses. C17, with some late C18, mid-C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber-frame with painted brick and rendered infill on a coursed rubble plinth under a slate roof. H-plan, main range aligned north/south containing The Burcott, Cobblers Cottage to north cross-wing, Post Office to south. Main stack in angle between north cross-wing and main range is of rubble with an oven and a brick shaft. A further small wing extends to south from south-west corner of south cross-wing. West front of two storeys to centre (raised in C18) with cross-wings of one storey with attics lit by 2-light casements in the gable ends. First floor has two 2-light casements. Ground floor has a 2-light casement to left under a plank weathering; to the centre a 3-light casement on left and a canted bay window with slate roof to right. Right-hand cross-wing has a fixed window. Three entrances, that to the left has a half-glazed porch with two-leaf door, to centre a four-panel door under a lean-to tiled canopy and to right a ledged and boarded door. Further wing to right of two storeys with a 2-light casement over a 3-light casement. Framing: three rectangular panels, the central range with straight angle braces. The gable trusses have two struts to the collar with V-struts in apex.

Listing NGR: SO4182858505