1-5, The Bartons

MATERIALS: built of Greensand rubble and incorporating some ashlar and brick; painted or rendered to the front (south-east) elevation, under plain tile roofs. A number of houses have brick dressings and all have brick stacks; that to Nos. 4 and 5 have been rebuilt.

PLAN: an accretional linear plan, with steps leading up from Church Hill to the front of the cottages. All are of two storeys, with a cellar to No. 1. The attached No. 6 The Bartons is not of interest.

EXTERIOR: The roadside gabled end of No. 1 has a C19 door and a C20 single-light window to the cellar level. It has a mid-C19 front of three bays with a central entrance that has a half-glazed door. The window to the left of the doorway is a C20 casement, that to the right is also C20 but set within the original segmental-headed opening. To the first floor are sashes without glazing bars with segmental heads. Nos. 2-4 project forward and are each of two bays. They have a painted brick front with a single window and a door to the ground floor of each cottage. The ridge to the roof which is hipped at right-hand end is higher than that to No.1. An historic photograph shows that Nos. 2-4 originally had sash windows; these have been replaced with timber casements. No. 5 projects further forward and appears to be C18. It is constructed of coursed ashlar to the ground floor and lime-washed brick above, which may indicate that it was formerly a single-storey building. There are small two-light casements to either side of the entrance which has a modern door and a hood over. There are two matching windows at first floor. Early-C21 lean-to addition to the rear.

INTERIOR: No. 5 was inspected internally. It has a large open fireplace with timber lintel that may have been rebuilt, and an axial ceiling beam.