Description

SD 83 SE WORSTHORNE WITH HURSTWOOD HURSTWOOD 3/49 Ivy Cottage 1.4.1953 GV II

Perhaps stable, now cottage. Probably late C16; altered. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof with stone gable coping. Small rectangular plan of 2 unequal bays. Two storeys; north gable (to road) has large chimney corbelled from 1st floor, with offsets near the apex. East front has chamfered doorway at rear left end, inserted doorway in centre, small single-storey gabled addition in front of right hand end; at 1st floor, a small chamfered light near the left end, and in the 2nd bay 2 deeply-recessed mullioned windows with round-headed lights and hollow spandrels. South gable has a similar 3-light window at 1st floor a small chamfered light at ground floor. Rear has 4 regularly-spaced chamfered single-light windows at 1st floor and at ground floor 2 square headed mullioned windows (3 + 2 lights) and an altered or inserted firewindow, all of which may be insertions. Interior: chamfered beams on moulded stone corbels. Note: external features suggest that building was originally designed for habitation only at 1st floor, the ground floor subsequently adopted.

Listing NGR: SD8807831334

External Links

• Wikidata Q26569697

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