13, 14 (Lilac Cottage) And 15 (Calmut Cottage), Lopen Road

ST4212 HINTON ST GEORGE CP LOPEN ROAD (West side)

8/78 Nos 13, 14 (Lilac Cottage) and 15 (Calmut Cottage)

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Row of 3 cottages. Probably late C17, with modifications and extension. Ham stone coursed rubble; thatched half-hipped roof; brick chimney stacks. Single-storey with attic, 6 bays in all: No 15 is probably a C18 extension, modified; nos 13 and 14 may have been one house originally. No 13, the southernmost, of two bays; boarded door in plain opening to bay 1, 3-light steel casement window bay 2, both under timber lintols; above door a 3-light window in swept dormer; outshut to rear. No 14 of 2 bays; with horizontal bar casement bay 1, 3-light below and 2-light in swept dormer, with boarded door to bay 2 having glazed panel in plain opening; timber lintols to both lower openings, with another larger lintol above door. No 15 is 2-bay, single storey only: 3-light casements in segmental-arched brick lined openings; door in an extension to north, on the corner of which is set a cast-iron pump complete with handle. Interiors not seen, but reported are timber framed wattle and daub partitions in No 14, and the south gable to No 13 timber framed above first floor ceiling level; halved-joint collar-beam truss roof, trenched purlins, feet of principal rafters tenoned into wall plates. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1975).

Listing NGR: ST4222612730