Berkeley Cottage

OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/103 l3/4B No 46 and Berkeley Cottage 30-7-59 GV II

Pair of houses. Circa 1639, altered c1900 and probably by Ernest Newton for the Martin family. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses, gable-end parapets with gabled finials, weathervane at west end and ashlar ridge stack at west end. Single storey and attic with dormers. Three bays; windows are all chamfered mullioned type with leaded casements. The ground floor has two 3-light windows and a 2-light window with hoodmoulds. There are three gabled dormers which have parapets with gabled finials and 3-light windows with dripmoulds. Entrances in outer bays, left one has a round-headed archway with moulded jambs, the right one has a chamfered 4-centred archway; both have square heads and the hoodmould of the adjacent windows is continued above both archways. The east gable end has a ground floor and attic mullioned window with hoodmould and also a small 2-light mullioned window with a dripmould in the gable apex. Large rear wing of c1900 date, single storey and attic with dormers, leaded casement windows and entrance in west side with flat canopy on shaped brackets and half-glazed door. The gateway (qv) referred to in the VCH is now situated on the south side of the road in the garden wall about 80 yards north of the Vicarage. (VCH, 3 ii, p 469; BoE, p 233).

Listing NGR: SO9574237336