Orchard Cottages Orchard House

SP 01 NW SHIPTON KILHAM LANE, (east side), Shipton Oliffe

5/98 No 1 (Orchard House), No 2 (Orchard Cottages) II

Two cottages in row. Orchard House mid-late C17. No 2, Orchard Cottages, late C17-early C18. Coursed squared limestone rubble to facades with large dressed quoins. Asbestos tiles to Orchard House, stone slate roof to No 2 Orchard Cottages. Former stone stacks now repaired, one in artificial stone the others in brick. Rectangular plan with Orchard House at centre aid No 2 Orchard Cottages right. No 1 Orchard Cottages, left of Orchard House and lean-tos at rear of Orchard House and No 2 Orchard Cottages not of special interest. Orchard House; two storey, 2-windowed facade all double-chamfered 2-light stone-mullioned casements with horizontal glazing bars. Central gabled projecting porch with trefoil-headed entrance and multi-facetted finial. C19 beaded plank door within rectangular surround inside porch. No 2 Orchard Cottages faces north; 2 storey, 2-windowed facade, all flat- chamfered stone-mullioned casements with access via C20 plank door within C20 lean-to porch.

Listing NGR: SP0364118347