Larches Locks Cottages Westbury

SU 76 SE EVERSLEY LOWER COMMON

2/1 Nos 1 and 2 (Locks Cottages) and Westbury and The - Larches

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Martineau Cottages. Circa 1900. Each pair a symmetrical design of 2 storeys and attic, 2 windows. Steep red tile roof, ½-hipped at ends and with low eaves at rear; gables spring from eaves level above windows, with pierced decorative barge-boards and ½ timber above window-heads, with red herringbone brick infill. Massive central stack, the upper part divided by thin pilasters, splayed at the top beneath projecting bands. Walls of red brickwork (Flemish bond) with 1st floor moulded brickwork weathering band, rubbed flat arches, tile cills, and a high plinth. Thin wood casements. Sides have an attic window central below the gable, 2 windows on either side of the axial porch and a small window beneath the outshot. The porch has a large tiled and gabled roof, on an open timber frame resting on brick walls. At the rear is a detached utility building, in similar style. At Westbury the porch has been replaced with a flat roofed single storeyed extension, in red brick and of matching style.

Listing NGR: SP7476363351