Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. A C18 Cottage.
Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-pedestal-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gate Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that was remodeled in the Gothick style in the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and has an asbestos tile roof with brick stacks at each end. The cottage features a one-unit plan and is two stories high with a single window range.
On the left side, there is a single-storey wing with a plank door and a timber lintel, topped by a lean-to slate roof. The symmetrical wing on the right side has a blocked door with a timber lintel. The gabled center of the cottage has 2-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, which have pointed arch heads and frames that imitate Y-tracery. A later single-storey extension is located at the rear.
Inside, there is an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and a stop-chamfered spine beam. Historically, this cottage served as the gate-keeper's residence for the gate to the lane that runs in front of it, and the post from which the gate hung is still present on the opposite side of the road.
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