Butterfield Cottages And Attached Outbuilding

SE 98 SE WYKEHAM RUSTON VILLAGE (north side) Ruston 8/133 Nos 53-55 (Butterfield Cottages) and attached outbuilding

GV II

Terrace of 3 cottages. c1850. By William Butterfield, for the Wykeham estate. Pink brick in English bond, rendered to sides and to rear; pantile roof with rendered brick stacks; tiled timber porches. Central-entry plan. 2-storey range, each cottage 3 bays; single-storey outbuilding to left. Entrance bay of each cottage is gabled and projecting, that to centre cottage full-height, those to each end single-storey. Board door to each cottage with bracketed gabled porch, the centre one hipped. Doors flanked by 3-light, small-pane horizontal-sliding sash to one side and tall, narrow 8-pane fixed lights to the other. First-floor windows are of 2-lights, small-pane horizontal-sliding sashes to end cottages and replacement casements to the centre. Shaped brick sills to all windows. Segmental relieving arches to ground-floor windows, and flat arches to first floor. Steeply-pitched roof with end stacks to each cottage. Outbuilding has similar openings. These cottages are described as "the most complete" example of this type of Butterfield terrace: Paul Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971, p 402 and fig 122.

Listing NGR: SE9597783177