Cotescue Park House With Cottage Attached At Rear

SE 18 NW COVERHAM WITH AGGLETHORPE COTESCUE PARK

10/8 Cotescue Park: house with 13/2/67 cottage attached at rear.

GV II

House and cottage. Late C18 house with early - mid C19 extension and cottage. Coursed rubble, some roughcast, with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2-storeys, house of 5:3 bays, with rear ranges at right angles to left and right, and cottage attached to end of right range. Main house: plinth, rusticated quoins. Central, C19, closed, flat-roofed porch with 6-panel door in eared architrave with pulvinated frieze and pediment. Sash windows with glazing bars in moulded surrounds, that above door eared and slightly raised in centre. Wooden modillion cornice. Shaped kneelers, ashlar copings, corniced ashlar end stacks. Range to right: roughcast rubble, stone slate roof. Sash windows with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds and, in centre, on first floor, a medieval quatrefoil with shield below. Shaped kneeler, ashlar coping, corniced ashlar stack to end right. Right return and wing: roughcast rubble. Doorway with re-set lintel with convex-chamfered, triangular-soffit lintel, inscribed "1662 GH" on face, "AH" on spandrels. Cottage: 2-storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Openings in ashlar surrounds. 6-panel C19 door below overlight. 12-pane unequally-hung sash windows. Stacks between bays 1 and 2 and at end right. Left return: rendered. C19 projecting square bay window on ground floor. Interior: main house: early - mid C19 cornices, Victorian staircase. Initials over side door said to refer to George Horner, d.l676.

Listing NGR: SE1062686891