Nos 9 And 10 Including Front Railings

ST GILES ST GILES IN THE WOOD SS 53 19 IN THE WOOD 23/249 Nos. 9 and 10 including front - railings

GV II

Pair of former estate cottages. Circa 1876 for the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle. Snecked local stone with ashlar quoins and yellow brick dressings; stone stacks with red brick chimneyshafts (partly rebuilt in C20); slate roof. Plan: Pair of contemporary cottages facing east, No. 9 to left ad No. 10 to right. Each is a mirror plan of the other, 1 room wide and 2 deep, either side of 2 central axial stacks both of which serve back-to-back fireplaces. Entrance porches in each end wall. 2 storeys with single storey service rooms to rear. Exterior: Symmetrical 4-window front. The windows have low segmental arches over. No. 9 still has original timber mullion-and-transom windows with glazing bars but No. 10 has circa 1980 uPVC windows. 3 front gables with shaped bargeboards, the centre one over a limestone plaque carved with the Rolle arms and with an illegible date. Main roof is gable-ended. Each end are gabled porches with front doorways; brick- lined Tudor arches with hoodmoulds. The doors are C20. Interiors: not inspected. A narrow strip of ground along the front is enclosed by original cast iron railings; plain railings and bulbous standards with fleur-de-lys finials. Original gates in the same style. This was a Rolle estate village. The big house, Stevenstone Court (q.v.), now ruined, was rebuilt in 1872-3 and the whole village, including the Church of St Giles (q.v.), was remodelled soon afterwards.

Listing NGR: SS5339319075