Dormay Cottages

OVERBURY CP - SO 9637 - 9737 10/105 Nos 52, 53 and 54 (Dormay Cottages) GV II

Row of three houses. 1904 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and plain tiled roof with gable-end parapets and ball finials to south front and hipped at rear. Large ashlar stacks with moulded capping, two to main ridge and at ends of main range. H-plan; main four-bay range aligned east/west with two- bay west cross-wing and three-bay east cross-wing. Single storey and attic with half-dormers and string course at attic storey level which is stepped above doorways. South front elevation: windows are mainly of three lights with chamfered mullions and leaded casements. Central part has two ground floor windows, two gabled half-dormers with weatherboarded gables and 3-light leaded casements and beneath eaves to left of each dormer is a rectangular stair light. Beneath each stairlight is a square-headed archway into a small lobby with a half-glazed door. There is a window on both storeys in the cross- wing gable ends; the attic storey windows have hoodmoulds. Beneath the string of the east cross-wing gable end is inscribed "DORMAY COTTAGES/ AD 1904". The east side of the building facing the road has a ground floor window, a central gabled half-dormer and rectangular lights on both floors; beneath the central half-dormer is the entrance to No 54. To the rear of the central range are three gabled wings and to the rear of the cross-wings are lean-to service rooms with catslide roofs. The building appears to have been little altered since it was built. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9603637852