Mill Bank Cottage

OVERBURY CP - SO 9637 - 9737 10/112 Mill Bank Cottage GV II

House. 1914 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses with overhanging bracketted eaves and two ashlar stacks situated adjacent to roof ridge. Single storey and attic. Three bays, the north and central bay having a shallow gabled projection to their main west elevation. Windows are all leaded casements. Main west elevation: gabled part to northern and central bay has a 3-light ground floor window with a cambered head and flanked by single- light windows; there is a similar 3-light attic window. Main entrance in angle with main part has a moulded stone canopy on stone brackets and a ledged and battened door. Southernmost bay has a ground floor single-light window and a gabled half-dormer with weatherboarding in the gable and a 2-light window. At the south end is a canted bay window with a hipped stone-tiled roof and a 3-light attic window with a cambered head. To the upper left side of the bay window is written "Mill Bank/ 1914". There is another entrance with a gabled porch on the north side elevation. The house is also known as Cogbill's Cottage. It is situated on the opposite side of the road to No 52, 53 and 54 (Dormay Cottages) (qv). (Newton, W G: The Life and Work of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9605937856