Church Gate Cottage And Cottage By The Church

WESTON CHURCH LANE TL 22 NE (East side) Church End

5/82 Church Gate Cottage 21.10.82 and Cottage By The Church

GV II

2 adjacent houses. C17, C20 extensions at each end. Timber frame, N house (Church Gate Cottage) dark weatherboarded with red brick N extension and steep slate roofs, S house roughcast with steep thatched roofs. In Church Gate Cottage the older part is of 1½-storeys with internal gable chimneys, 2 2-light casement windows, 2 gabled dormers at the eaves with pierced bargeboards. Short weatherboarded extension with matching roof, gabled dormer and 4-lights casement window. Single-storey red brick extension set back at N end. Trellis porch to middle of older part. Interior has stop-chamfered axial beams. Gabled brick C19 rear wing. Cottage By The Church has small 1½-storeys older part at N continuing line of other cottage. 2-lights casement dormer at eaves of thatched. roof. 4-lights flush -casement window. Canted rear bay window with small panes. Tall 2-storeys thatched S crosswing with dark weatherboarded front and S side but roughcast gable triangle projects only to front (W) with chimney rising through N roofslope, 2 windows to each floor of front gable with entrance beside LH window. 4-panels door. Interior of older part has exposed framing and axial chamfered and stopped beams. NMR photo of 1959 shows a window and door in the position of the 4-lights window, and scalloped bargeboards to dormers of N house. The group is important in the setting of the church.

Listing NGR: TL2665829959