Manor Cottages

ST13SE COTHELSTONE CP

3/88 Manor Cottages, (formerly listed as adjacent cottages on West, Manor House)

25.2.55

GV II

Church house, lodgings or detached kitchen wing, now a pair of cottages. Late C15, altered C19 into three cottages, and mid C20 into two. Red sandstone random rubble masonry coped verges, tiled roof, slight overhang, coved stone soffits, wood at North-western end. Two storeys, irregularly placed fenestration with blocked openings, left-hand cottage two C19 casements under brick relieving arches to left of entrance, C20 door, and left of central blocked entrance, in between medieval stone moulded window frame with similar above, blocked mullion window to right, C19 casewnts on either side. Right-hand cottage, entrance C20 door in end bay beneath brick relieving arch with pair of similar C19 windows to left flanking blocked 2.25 wtre wide 4 centred arch opening with relieving arch, two C19 casements above, 2 and 3-light hollow chamfered mullions on right return elevation. Interior: 6 pairs of jointed crucks, one partially visible in the left- hand cottage, right-hand not viewed. The history of this late medieval building is still unclear. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, October 1983).

Listing NGR: ST1811631805