Number 12 (Robins Nest), Number 14 And Number 16

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WALSHAM LE WILLOWS THE CAUSEWAY (WEST SIDE) No.12 (Robins Nest), No.14, No.16

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A row of 3 estate cottages. Late C19. In rustic style, the most ornate example of a number of estate cottages built by John Martineau Esq., of The Lawn. Red brick to ground floor, exposed timber-framing with render to the upper floor; plaintiles. 2 storeys; complex form. Internal and end chimney- stacks with rounded shafts, moulded bases, and corbelled caps. Both end cottages have large jettied cross-wings, each jetty with shaped joist ends and ornate supporting brackets; carved bargeboards and ornate spike finials to-the gables; a single storey open timber porch in the angle of the wing and main range, and an oriel to the upper floor with 5-light casement window. Similar casements, with a single bar to lights, to all the other windows in the row. The middle cottage, double fronted, has a large 2-storey gabled porch projecting from its centre front, with open timbering on the ground floor and a room with a 5-light slightly coved window above; bargeboards and finial to match the cross-wings. All 3 cottages have diagonal bracing in the apex of the gables and Biblical texts carved on bressummers and tie-beams.

Listing NGR: TM0002670872