Primrose Cottage To North West Of World Bird Research Station / Rose Cottage To North West Of World Bird Research Station

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

GLANTON FRONT STREET NU 0714 (North side) Glanton Village

21/201 Primrose Cottage and Rose Cottage to north-west of World Bird Research Station GV II

Cottages, early to mid-C18 of several builds. Heavy squared rubble with large roughly-tooled quoins and dressings. Purple slate roof except for pantiles on rear of Rose Cottage; Welsh slates on Rose Cottage outshuts and corrugated iron sheets on Primrose Cottage outshut.

Primrose Cottage 2 storeys, 2 bays: Central boarded door; 12-pane sash windows except for 4-pane sash on ground floor right. Coped right end gable, end stacks. Rose Cottage, to right, 1 storey, 3 bays; boarded door between left bays; 12-pane sash windows. Reversed-stepped coping to right end gable; axial stack on ridge.

Interior: Rose Cottage has chamfered fireplace with set pot and old ironwork; original beamed ceilings.

These cottages are said to have formed part of a row on the north side of the former village green, before this was enclosed in the late C18.Rose Cottage, with its lobby-entrance plan, is an unusually well-preserved example.

Listing NGR: NU0704614538

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0100 IOE Records taken by Peter Ballan; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Peter Ballan. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project