Description

SE 2807 CAWTHORNE NORCROFT LANE (South side)

10/66 Nos 4 & 6 Upper Norcroft Cottages

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Two cottages. C17 or early C18, altered. Coursed squared stone with quoins. Stone slate roof. Two storeys. Four bays. Both cottages have a quoined entrance with a 2-light double-chamfered window to its right. In each case there is a shared stepped hoodmould, that to left with a spiral stop at left end. Other windows, including the four at first floor level are later insertions. Chamfered gable copings on moulded kneelers to left. Two later brick ridge stacks. Rear: 4 bays of 3-light double-chamfered windows. Quoined entrance between bays 1 & 2 above which the ground floor dripmould rises as a hood. Later door inserted betweeen bays 2 & 3. Square tablet with octagonal blocked opening at high level to right.

Interior: In each case the lobby entrance is against a central stack and both retain a firehood bressumer on posts, arched for the doorway. This is elaborately moulded in the case of the right cottage, but plainer in the left.

P F Ryder, Report for South Yorkshire Archaeological Service. 7.11.79

Listing NGR: SE2867807065

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)