Honeysuckle Cottage Nos 1 To 5 (Consecutive) With Front Boundary Wall And Steps

KINGSTON CHAPEL ROW SX 64 3l1 4/26 Nos 1 to 5 (consecutive) with front boundary wall and steps

GV II

Row of cottages. C17, C18, C19. Rendered on cob or rubble, roofs slate or thatch. All two storeys. No 1 (Old Stack) is 2-windowed, all small 2-light glazing-bar casements; off centre left is a deep-set glazed door on 5 stone steps, and immediately to its right a large external eaves stack. Small square stack at left gable. Slated roof. No 2 is 2-windowed, small 2-light glazing- bar casements; C20 door off-centre left, slate roof, brick stack to right. Two retains a complete C19 roof structure under a later raising, also has a cased Barlow rail used as spine beam in the lower room. No 3 is a narrow 2-window front, 2-light glazing-bar casements, except ground floor left, a single light. C20 door to thatched C20 hood off-centre left. Upper windows to eyebrows. Rendered stepped stack, raised in brick, right. No 4 is wide-front 2-windowed, 2-light glazing-bar casements; C20 plank door under C20 thatched hood off-centre left. Stack shared with No 3. Thatched roof. No 5 (Honeysuckle Cottage) is 2-windowed, but probably built in two stages; left half is thatched and right half slated. Two-light glazing-bar casements to central C20 plank door and thatched hood. Large stack, left. Backs of row mainly blank, but No 3 has gabled slate hung extension, and there are one 2-light and a single light case- ments. The Kingston History Society's booklet 'Kingston, a South Hames Village (1980) has photographs of 1925 showing that little has changed since then except for the thatched hoods and some new doors and replacement casements. The low rubble boundary wall across all the frontages, with steps, is included.

Listing NGR: SX6380747900