Orchard Cottage

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4/0/10007 PARK ROAD 06-APR-04 Orchard Cottage

GV II Pair of attached houses, now one dwelling. Late C18 or early C19. Limestone rubble with dressed stone front wall and quoins. Stone tile roof with gabled ends. Rendered gable-end stacks. PLAN: Pair of attached houses, converted into one house. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 4-window south east front with original 2-light windows on first floor with wrought-iron casements and similar 3-light window on ground floor to right, timber lintels and stone cills; ground floor left replaced by French casement. Two doorways at centre, the left replaced by casement window and the right has C20 glazed door and gabled canopy on brackets; two small gabled dormers with wrought-iron casements. Rear [north- west] elevation, two small narrow windows on first floor at centre with old frames and three C20 casements on ground floor. INTERIOR: Plan altered, although central partition wall remains. Ground and first floor have slightly chamfered cross-beams and exposed joists and trimmers probably for staircase; wide elm floor boards; some original plank doors; stairs replaced; original 4-bay tenoned-purlin roof structure. An unusual example of a Georgian pair of attached vernacular houses, largely intact, although converted into one house.