Church Cottage

LUCKINGTON ALDERTON ST 88 SW (east side)

2/195 Church Cottage

23.9.87

GV II

Former school, now cottage, 1832 by James Thomson for Joseph Neeld of Grittleton, squared rubble stone with low-pitched slate eaves roof, half-hipped each end and gabled to north and south. Ridge stack. l½ storeys, unmoulded flush mullion windows. West end, to road, has small 2-light over large 2:3:2-light canted bay with lead roof. South gable has roundel date plaque over gabled slate-roofed stone porch with depressed-arched entry. To right, a blocked door. North side has 2-light to gable and altered single-storey projection below, C20 north east addition. House is illustrated as a school in James Thomson's School Houses, 1842, with plan, and as a 'single cottage' in his History of the church and village of Alderton (unpubl) 1845 72, by which time the larger schoolroom, now The Old School House (q .v.) had been built.

Listing NGR: ST8405583023