Haircut Cottage And Atkins

DOLTON

FORE STREET (south side), Dolton

SS 5712 14/71

Haircut Cottage and Atkins

GV II

Pair of cottages. Circa late C17 or early C18 with later C18 addition. Rendered cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof, slate to front wing. 3 brick stacks - one axial and one at each gable end, rendered lateral stack to wing. Plan: Haircut Cottage has 3-room plan but thick wall between central and left-hand rooms suggest the latter may be an addition, probably later C18 wing at front of right-hand room. Atkins Cottage has 2 room plan, right-hand room heated. Exterior: 2 storeys. Haircut Cottage has asymmetrical 1-window front 3-windows on ground floor. 2 late C20 2-light casements on ground floor with bow windows to their left and earlier C20 single light above. Wing projecting to right has C20 plank door on inner face. Atkins Cottage has 1-window front of early C20 3-light casement to right on each floor with C19 panelled door to left of centre. Interior: of Atkins Cottage has blocked fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. To include low C19 iron railings in front of Atkins Cottage.

Listing NGR: SS5705012103