Winchester Cottage

Winchester Cottage, Main Road. 9/119 3/119

------------------------------------ Winchester Cottage, Main Road. 9/119 3/119

------------------------------------ ST4623 LONG LOAD CP MAIN ROAD (West side)

9/119 Winchester Cottage

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GV II

Detached cottage. Probably C17, modified. Local lias and Ham stone mixed coursed rubble; thatched roof with plain north gable, long hip to south; brick chimney stack. Single-storey with attic, 3 bays. Below 3-light leaded casement window to bay 1, under timber lintol, and 3-light hollow- chamfer mullioned window in recess, without label, to bay 3; above, 2-light small-pane casements set into roof: to lower bay 2 a C20 boarded door with sidelight under thatched hood on wrot-iron brackets. Lean-to against south gable with boarded door in heavy frame. Two extensions to rear. Interior not seen, but reported are chamfered beams, and trusses with slightly cambered collars - formerly 2-room cross-passage plan. (SSAVBRG Report, SRO Unpublished, May 1981: Somerset villages - Long Load, and Knole, Long Sutton, SSAVBRG, 1982).

Listing NGR: ST4663123466