Description

DIPTFORD SX75NE 5/205 Crabadon Cottage

GV II

Small house formerly a pair of cottages. Circa late C18. Painted slate stone rubble, rendered at the back and slate hung at the left hand (west) end. There is also a section of slate-hanging at the left hand end of the first floor of the front. Asbestos slate roof with gabled ends. Large projecting gable end stacks with slate weathering to tapered top of the shafts; the left hand stack is slate hung. Plan: Rectangular plan pair of attached one room plan cottages heated from gable end stacks and with a pair of entrances at the centre of the front probably giving access to lobbies and stairs against the party wall. The pair of cottages have been converted into one house and the left hand doorway has been blocked. Exterior: storeys. South front: symmetrical 3 window range. The symmetry is only broken by the blocked doorway to left of centre. C19 2-light casements with glazing bars, the first floor windows have C20 replacement casement frames without glazing bars and smaller single-light centre window with C20 top hung casement, all in original openings, and all with slate cills except for the ground floor right window which has a concrete cill. Doorway to right of centre with glazed plank door and C20 glazed porch. The back is unaltered and has one small ground floor window to left of centre. Single storey outbuilding attached to right hand end with corrugated iron gable ended roof. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7536355075

External Links

• Wikidata Q26402091

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)