9 AND 10

ALDERMINSTER

SP24NW Nos.9 AND 10 1912-1/6/16

II

Pair of estate cottages. 1860s. For James Roberts West. Brick; tile roof with brick cross-axial stacks. Gothic-style details. L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. Wide eaves and verges; gabled projection to left of centre. Entrance to left end has plank door with enriched strap hinges and open timber gabled porch with fishscale tile bands. Windows have sills and segmental pointed heads; those to ground floor have brick timpana over wooden frames with pointed lights and decorative lattice glazing and trefoils to spandrels; 1st floor has windows with similar frames of 2 pointed lights with quatrefoil between, that to right in gabled half-dormer. Cross-axial stack with clustered octagonal shafts. Returns similar, right return with single light to left of entrance with gabled porch. Rear wing has similar details, stack and C20 end addition connecting cottages with single-storey rear wash house. INTERIOR: not inspected. A good and little-altered example of estate housing, one of a row of 7 pairs, most altered. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 63).

Listing NGR: SP2277648878