Description

TG 2407 NW
31/264

COZENS ROAD (north side)
Nos. 63 - 79 (odd)

1.4.82

GV
II
Terrace of eight former railway workers' cottages. Mid C19. (1847) by Grissell and Peto, builders/architects to the Norfolk Railway Company. Red brick originally with yellow brick details, mostly rendered. Slate roof; brick ridge chimneys. Single-storey and attic; sixteen window range; end units set forward. Doors in centre of each unit (Nos. 65, 77 and 79, C20) have projecting porches with four-centred heads and pediments. No. 71 has C20 door hung at front of porch flanked by casement windows (Nos. 65, 75, 77 and 79 replaced by C20 plate glass). Plain brick string course. Gabled half-dormers.

This range forms part of a unique group of planned workers dwellings in Norwich City, arranged round a roughly triangular common drying yard paved with flint and cobbles. known previously as Railway Cottages and forming part of the same development in Hardy Road (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TG2442707934

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501745

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock