5 And 6, The Green

SOMERLEYTON THE GREEN TM 49 NE 4/34 Nos 5 and 6 GV II Pair of estate cottages. Circa 1850. Red brick with yellow brick dressings and a raised brick course at first floor level. Clay pantiles. Picturesque style. Symmetrical to the green, with a hipped-roof block set forward. 2 storeys. 2 windows, mullion and transom casements under segmental arches; the original lead lattice cames only remain in the upper part of each light. The upper windows are gabled half-dormers. To each recessed part of the facade a shallow-arched doorway with boarded door. Central rectangular stack of yellow brick with grouped flues and a second matching stack to the rear. Part of the model village of estate workers' cottages built around the green for Sir Morton Peto to the designs of John Thomas. Almost identical to Nos. 15 & 16, The Green (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TM4844997481