Shepherds Cottage And Front Boundary Wall With Gateway

ST4615 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP HIGHER STREET (West side) 9/224 Shepherds Cottage (formerly listed as Pair of Cottages - formerly called Peacehaven), and front boundary wall with gateway 19.4.61 GV II Detached house. C17. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; double Roman clay tiles between high coped gables, suggesting former thatch; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, all 2-light with horizontal-bar glazing, lower windows with labels; to lower bay 3 a moulded cambered-arched doorway with incised spandrils and separate label, with boarded door. Single-storey lean-to against south gable, outshut to rear. Interior not seen. About 4 metres east of house the boundary walls, about 1.2 metre high, in coursed rubble with plain coping having curved Sweeps up to gateway piers opposite door to house; piers square, about 2.25m high, with cornice caps and stepped pyramid caps, wrot-iron gate between, the whole adding to the setting of the house.

Listing NGR: ST4665715548