Cottage Adjoining Rose Cottage At The East

SX 39 SE ST GILES ON THE HEATH GRIDLEY CORNER

5/42 Cottage adjoining Rose Cottage - at the east

GV II

Cottage. Core probably C18. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, thatched roof gabled at right end, stack at left end, projecting stack at right end. One of a pair of cottages said formerly to have been 3 properties. The original plan may have been a single-cell cottage at the right end, the left-hand end may have been one half of a 2-cell cottage. 2-room single depth plan with a central entrance in front of the stair and a rear lean-to for service rooms. Living room/kitchen at the right, parlour to the left. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-window front with a central porch of a sloping slate canopy carried on stone cheeks. Circa late C19 2-light casement windows with glazing bars. Interior Exposed joists of slender scantling, the right-hand room has an open fireplace with stone rubble jambs, a plain timber lintel and a cloam oven. C19 chimney piece to the left-hand fireplace. A blocked doorway in the left-hand room formerly led into the adjacent property. Rose Cottage (qv). One of a group of thatched cottages at Gridley Corner.

Listing NGR: SX3608790093