Dairy Cottages

TG 13 SE WICKMERE WOLTERTON PARK

5/90 No. 1 Dairy Cottages

GV II

Cottage. Probably C17 or early C18 with later C18 and Cl9 alterations and C19 extension. Flint and brick with brick quoins, south gable end header and garden wall bond brick and south end of west front rebuilt in Flemish bond brick. Red clay pantile roof with coped gable ends, the south end with brick tumbling. Gable end stack with rebuilt shaft.

2-room plan with central entrance, the left hand (north) room heated from gable end stack. Outshut added to north end in C19.

2 storeys. asymmetrical 2 window west front. Small C19 2-light casements and large 3-light casement on left of ground floor. Central doorway with plank door. Flemish bond brick single storey outshut on left (north) gable end with pantile lean-to roof and Cl9 3-light casementn on front end; blocked window above in gable and on first floor at rear. C19 2 and 3-light casements on south gable end.

Interior: Fireplace in north gable end has timber lintel and lateral beam above against stack. Remainder of interior not inspected.

Note: This building is depicted on the 1732 estate map and with No 4 Dairy Cottages (qv) is all that remains of the village to have survived the landscaping of Wolterton Park.

Listing NGR: TG1596232294