Culbone Cottage And Retaining Wall Fronting Property

Culbone Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage that was altered in the late 19th century. It is constructed from random rubble local stone with brick dressings and features a moulded plinth and bargeboards on its broad gabled front. The roof has a stage design with corrugated iron sheeting on the lower part of the right return of the gable, and the eaves overhang. A large roughcast external stack is located on the right gable end, while a pair of circular stacks, decorated in the Tudor style, are on the left. The cottage is L-shaped, with a gable front on the left and two storeys on the right. The eaves sweep down to the first floor on the left, where there is a 2-light segmental headed casement window. Below this is a segmental headed recess in brick with two single light windows that are decoratively leaded. To the right is an inserted half-glazed 20th-century door in a semi-circular headed opening, and to the left is a ribbed door with a wooden lintel. On the first floor to the right, there is a single light window that is also decoratively leaded, situated above a segmental headed cast iron window with a small square-headed central casement opening under a hood mould. The retaining wall in front of the property is made of blue lias and red sandstone random rubble, featuring saddleback coping that ramps up to the central section and is slightly battered. The cottage is part of the Ashley Comble estate and was likely altered under the direction of Lady Lovelace.