Lower Yeatson Cottage

ASHPRINGTON SX85NW BOW 6/36 Lower Yeatson Cottage

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Pair of attached cottages, converted into one house. Circa 1830. Local stone rubble consisting of bluestone and shale with local limestone window arches; the ground storey has been colourwashed. Scantle slate roof with gable ends and deep eaves. Projecting stone rubble gable end stacks with short brick shafts. Plan: Single depth pair of attached one-room plan cottages with a pair of doorways at the centre of the front leading to staircases against the party wall. The cottages are built into a high bank at the rear where the ground is at about first floor level. In the C20 they were converted into one house, the left hand doorway blocked and the left hand staircase taken out to enlarge the left hand room. Exterior: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front, centre windows blind. All the windows have tent-shaped pointed arches of dressed limestone and 2-light casements with Y-bars; the glazing bars or leading are missing. A pair of central doorways (the left hand doorway has been blocked) under a hipped slated canopy on shaped brackets. The right hand door is C20 and the left hand doorway has a casement inserted. 2 doorways at the back enter the first floor left hand room and the room above; both are under a later outshut. Interior:: Only the simple boxed in straight staircase of the right hand cottage was seen; it is intact.

Listing NGR: SX8110456496