7 And 8, The Green

SOMERLEYTON THE GREEN TM 49 NE 4/35 Nos 7 and 8 GV II Pair of estate cottages. Circa 1850. Red brick, the upper floor pebbledash- rendered with applied timbering (some missing). Thatched roof. Picturesque style. Asymmetrical form, with 2 half-hipped gables facing forward and a similar end gable to the right. 2 storeys. Casement windows under segmental arches; the original lead lattice cames only remain in the upper part of each light. One half-dormer. 2 doorways, each with boarded door and half-hipped thatched porch on timber posts; the doorway to No.7 is set in the side wall. Bargeboards with pierced lobes. 3 red brick stacks with grouped flues, mostly set diamondwise. Part of the model village of estate workers' cottages built around the green for Sir Morton Peto to the designs of John Thomas.

Listing NGR: TM4843397469