Sunny Bank Cottage

OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/133 Sunny Bank Cottage - II

House. Probably late C18, altered and extended in 1902 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; slate roof with gable-end parapets and handmade brick end stacks. Two storeys and attic with half-dormers and moulded eaves cornice. Three bays; outer bays have 16-pane sashes on both main floors and above are gabled half-dormers which have parapets with kneelers and 9-pane sashes. There is a central first floor round-headed sash window with a moulded keyblock. Beneath it is the main entrance which has a moulded flat stone canopy on consoles and a round-headed doorway in which has been inserted a partly-glazed door with a cambered head and a segmental panel above. An out building converted in 1902 to form a small extension projects to the north-east side. Its walls have been raised in height in ashlar and it has a shone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses and an ashlar ridge.end stack with two shafts. Single storey and attic with dormers. Two bays. Ground floor has two 12-pane sashes and a rectangular leaded light and there are two gabled dormers with 2-light leaded casements. In the angle with the main part is a 4-panelled door and a small attic window. The name of the house and the date of the alterations are inscribed at the upper left corner at the front of the wing. Interior has a dog-leg staircase with c1902 balustrading of decorative openwork panels. [cf staircase at Northlands House (qv) and the gate panels at The Red House and flanking walls (qv) (qv)]. Ground floor of main range has limestone flags. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9592437660