Lawes Cottage

SU 03 SW DINTON SNOW HILL (north side)

1/169 Lawes Cottage 23.3.60

GV II

Detached house. Late C17. Rubble stone, stone slate roof with gable end stone and brick stacks and coped verges. Three-cell house. Two-storey, 4-window. Planked door to right of centre, 3- light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with hoodmould to right and 3-light and 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds to left. First floor has two 3-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds and two 2-light mullioned casements. Left return has 2-light mullioned casement with hoodmould to ground and first floor. Right return has external brick stack. Rear has two 3-light wood mullioned casements and 2-light leaded casement lighting stairs to left, first floor has two 3-light wood mullioned casements, two flat-headed dormers and one raking dormer over attic stair window. Attached to left is C19 extension. Interior has chamfered beams with ogee stops to ground and first floors, beam of central ground floor room supported on jowled post, partly blocked open fireplace to west room, winding stairs to rear rise to attic. Three-bay collar-truss roof. Cottage takes its name from the composer Henry Lawes, born in Dinton 1596, who wrote the music for Milton's Masque 'Comus', and his brother William born 1602, also composer add musician. (V.C.H. Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965; Oxford Companion to Music, 1978)

Listing NGR: SU0145631589