Description

TM 03 NE CAPEL ST MARY THE STREET (SOUTH SIDE)
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No. 5, Orchard Cottage

II

Cottage. C15/C16. Timber framed and plastered with some weather boarding and
painted brick. Red plan tiled roof hipped to rear. Large offset red brick
chimney stack to left return. Single storey right return C20 lean-to extension.
Formerly jettied to front, now with brick infill to ground floor. 2 storeys,
single window range of C19/C20 casements, board door to right, moulded surround,
C20 door to right lean-to extension. Of 2 bays, the central large jowled storey
posts and cambered tie beams now with arched braces cut away suggest a crown post
roof. There is an original round headed doorway to ground floor. Flat section
ceiling beams, chamfered bridging joists. Mullion slots visible in jetty
bressumer. Herringbone brick floors. A copy of a will in the present owners
possession suggests thai the cottage was owned by Samuel Hudson, 6th June 1629.
Possibly the crosswing to a former larger house.

Listing NGR: TM0968938256

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284883

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)