Orchard Cottages

LONG MARSTON

SP1548 MAIN STREET 1912-1/13/100 (West side) 06/02/52 Orchard Cottages

GV II

Pair of houses. C17 with later alterations and ex-situ C14 window. Timber-frame with plaster infill and brick addition to right end; coursed rubble wing; steeply pitched renewed tile roof with 2 brick stacks to front of ridge and end stacks. L-plan. EXTERIOR: single storey plus attic; 4-window range. Entrance to left of centre has C20 porch to studded plank door; entrance to right end has plank door in pegged frame. Ground floor has three 3-light casements, one C20, others with small panes and iron opening casements; 3 gabled dormers have 2-light casements with mostly leaded glazing, but one with small-paned light; lean-to rubble oven projection to right of centre. Wing breaking forward to left has coped gable with fleuron, 2-light single-chamfered mullioned window with iron opening casement, and 1st floor traceried 2-light C14 window. Left return has 1950s addition to left end; entrance to right of centre has timber lean-to porch and plank door; entrance to C20 left end. Window to each floor to left end with C20 casements, recessed chamfered-mullioned windows of 2 lights and 4 lights flank entrance, that of 2 lights being truncated by entrance; 2-light and 3-light casements with iron opening casements above, the 3-light casement with moulded timber lintel. Rear has C20 flat-roofed outshut with 2-light leaded casement to 1st floor window; projecting single-storey brick wing to left has segmental-headed windows to ground floor. INTERIOR: not inspected, but noted as having exposed beams. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416).

Listing NGR: SP1527448236