Kilters

SW 74 SE KEA HUGUS

1/154 Kilters

GV II

Row of 4 cottages now 3 units and adjoining killing house. Oldest cottage to right (east) C18, otherwise circa early-mid C19. Built by the Gerrans family. Painted and some rendered stone rubble and cob to oldest part, slate sills, wooden lintels or shallow brick arches. Roofs on 4 levels to front with grouted scantle slate left (west) corrugated asbestos to middle former pair of cottages with grouted scantle slate parallel roof to rear of left-hand one. Brick chimneys over gable ends and party walls. Oldest part, right, has corrugated iron over thatch and killing house, to far right (east) has lower pitched corrugated asbestos roof. Plan of irregular row: single-cell cottage, left, (west); pair of single-cell cottages with later service room behind each, adjoining to right; and earliest single-cell cottage to right with adjoining killing house (last use) far right remodelled C20. 2 storeys. Regular south front with 1-window cottage left with 4-pane horned sashes, pair of 1-window cottages with doorway towards middle with 4-panel doors; and right- hand one with old lattice porch, and both with original 16-pane hornless sashes front and rear. C18 house to right is set back from other fronts and south side is rear with 2 small ground floor windows only, 1 with glazing bars. North front of this cottage has original 12-pane 2-light casements to ground floor left and to first floor far right. Doorway with ledged door within C20 lean-to porch. Otherwise the cob walling is unpierced and retains its cob texture. Killing house north front has wide doorway with ledged ventilated door and wide 2-light casement to left. Interior not inspected but said to be little altered. Said to have been built by and still inhabited by (1985) the Gerrans family, and built on land with limited life lease.

Listing NGR: SW7740143542