Farm Labourer'S Cottage

The following building shall be added to the list;

ERDINGTON JERRY'S LANE SP 09 SE 3/10031 Number 192, Farm Labourer's Cottage II Farm labourer's cottage. Circa 1800, with minor C19 alterations. Red brick, laid to Flemish garden wall bond, beneath a clay tile roof with stepped eaves course and plain brick stack to north-west corner. One and a half bays, single storey and attic, with half bay single storey service range to east. South elevation, partially rendered, with plank door to entrance on east side and two light, 3 pane casement to west. West gable with central buttress to stiffen single brick thickness wall. Two light casement windows to ground and attic floors to south of central buttress. East gable with similar buttress, ground floor window opening without frame and first floor window opening without lights within the frame. Service range to east, with plain plank door to doorway and 2 light casement to the east. Interior. Hearth to north west corner, with plain mantel shelf and cast-iron oven range. Ceiling joists run east-west, carried on slender chamfered spine beam which bears upon stub brick walls. Brick partition to east encloses small storage area. Beyond, plain plank door gives access to service range with tiny hob grate, and brick copper to east wall. The building is shown on a plan of Erdington dated 1802, and on the Erdington Enclosure map of 1802-1806. An 1817 plan of cottages 'situate at the Turf Pits' shows the existing building on the line of the road, Turf Pit Road, which became Jerry's Lane. It is a very rare, survival of an unaltered small dwelling of the most primitive type, and represents a level of housing provision now almost completely lost in both urban and rural contexts.

Listing NGR: SP0980893017