The Wheel House Twin Cottage

ASHPRINGTON SX85NW No.1 (The Wheel House) 6/22 and No.2 (Twin Cottage)

GV II

Pair of attached estate houses. Circa mid C19. Local stone rubble with rendered front. Grouted scantle slate roof with gabled ends and 2 gables at the front, all the gables have pierced wooden bargeboards with finials and pendants. Large central axial stack with a square main shaft and diagonally- set attached shaft to front and back, with moulded yellow day pots. Plan: Pair of attached houses, each with a plan the mirror image of the other with a principal room at the front, a side entrance porch and a service room at the rear in a central wing. In the C20 an extension was added in the angle behind the left hand house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-bay gabled front. The ground floor has 2 canted bays with original casements with lozenge and diamond-shaped panes and slate hipped roofs with moulded eaves cornices. Two 2-light casements above with glazing bars, the right hand light of the right hand window retains its original glazing bars with lozenge and diamond-shaped panes. Flanking the left and right of the front are original C19 open gabled porches with pierced bargeboards. Both porches serve doorways in the side walls. There is an original casement on the first floor of the right hand gable end with lozenge and diamond-shaped panes. Interior: not inspected

Listing NGR: SX8188757062