Church Cottage Gnosall Cottage

WOODLEIGH VILLAGE CENTRE SX 74 NW 5/127 Church Cottage and Gnosall Cottage GV II Pair of cottages. Probably late C17. Rendered or whitewashed rubble thatched roof. Interiors much altered and difficult to interpret, possibly cross-passage plans; Gnosall Cottage has wing, back right. Two storeys, irregular fenst- ration; Church Cottage, left, has two 2-light C20 casements, and at first floor a 2 and a 3-light C18 casements with leading, in eyebrows. C20 gabled door under porch with wooden arch on posts to thatched hood. Stack between windows at ridge; left outer bay possibly later addition. Hipped end and splayed end wall with 3 over 2-light casements. Glazed lean-to to back. Gnosall Cottage has three 2-light casements, and first floor two similar, all to horizontal bars; C20 door and porch between first and second windows. Right gable has stack, and a further stack to internal angle with wing, which has C20 door and additions. Interiors: much modified, Gnosall Cottage has boxed trans- verse beams, and Church Cottage some early principal rafters in part of a lean- to. One of the cottages formerly Post Office, indicated as such on OS map.

Listing NGR: SX7382348877