The Brake Cottage

OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/108 The Brake Cottage - II

Former engine and dynamo house, now house. 1898 by Richard Norman Shaw for Robert Martin, and altered mid-C20. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, half-hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves. Rectangular four-bay plan. Single storey and attic. West front elevation: two 4-light chamfered mullioned ground floor windows with leaded casements; outer bays have large timber lintels and beneath the left one is a 2-light casement and a half-glazed door and beneath the right one a half-glazed panel and half- glazed door (these are all mid-C20 insertions). At each end is a 5-light chamfered mullioned attic window and on the half-hipped part of the roof is a gabled louvred ventilation opening. There is a lean-to at the south gable end with a 2-light casement and half-glazed door in its west side. Original lean-to shed on cast iron posts and brackets with corrugated iron roof adjoins rear elevation. (Saint, A: Richard Norman Shaw, London, 1976).

Listing NGR: SO9557637266