Description

DENT

SD7086 MAIN STREET, Dent Town
162-1/25/187 (South side)
14/06/84 Edmonson's

GV II

Cottage. Probably late C17 or early C18; altered, and recently
renovated, with further alterations. Roughly-coursed mixed
rubble, stone slate roof. Single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: built on sloped site with lower ground to rear, 2
storeys at the front but 3 storeys at the rear. The 3-window
facade has a square-headed doorway to the right, with a large
monolithic lintel, two C20 6-pane windows at ground floor
(with renewed joinery), and at 1st floor two square 2-light
windows and a 1-light window, with stepped chamfered surrounds
and chamfered mullions.
Rear: recently altered and partly restored. The bottom storey
now has a segmental-headed garage doorway to the left
(replacing a 2-light mullioned window), and a 2-light
mullioned window and a segmental-headed 1-light window to the
right; the middle storey has two 2-light mullioned windows
(one probably moved to this position from below) and a similar
1-light window to the right, with moulded surrounds; and the
top storey has three 2-light mullioned windows. All the
windows of the upper floors have stone slate drip-bands.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Forms group with cottages and smithy adjoining to the right at
the front (qv), and with No.2 Queen's Square to the rear (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7053986989

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663826

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)