Nos 4, 5 And 6, With Dwarf Walls, Railings And Gates Fronting Road

ST04SE SAMPFORD BRETT CP

2/131 Nos 4, 5 and 6, with dwarf walls, railings and gates fronting road

• GV Il

Row of three cottages. Mid C19. Red sandstone squared rubble, steeply pitched diamond tiled roofs with overhanging eaves, renewed brick stacks on ridges flanking central gable external stepped stack left gable end and on gable end right return rear wing. "U"-plan with gabled centre block breaking forward. 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays, all ovolo moulded wooden mullions, 2-light gabled dormers in outer bays, centre 3-light casement with lancet in gable end, ground floor 2- and 3-light casements, bell-cast tiled porches with pierced wooden gables set to right of respective windows, studded plank doors. Lower gabled wings on returns with outshots. Spearhead railings set in dwarf walls swept up to cottages in outer bays, breaking forward following the frontage with gates of similar design fronting entrances. These were estate cottaes built by the Acland Hoods. Picturesquely asymmetrical frontage and left return forms an important feature at the cross roads in Sampford Brett. (Photograph in NMR; VCH Somerset, Vol 5, forthcoming).

Listing NGR: ST0875940158