Description

SU 1721
5/78

DOWNTON
THE HEADLAND
(west side)
Vine Cottage

GV
II

Semi-detached cottage. C16, C17 bay added to south, rebuilding of
front wall c1800. Flemish stretcher bond brick to front, refacing
of a timber-frame, thatched roof with brick stacks. Outshut. 2-
storey, 3-window front. Half-glazed door with thatched canopy to
right of centre, to left are two 2-light casements, one 2-light
casement to right. First floor has three 2-light casements. Brick
stacks have toothed capping. Left return has tile-hung first
floor, with fishscale tiles, and two single casements. To rear is
rebuilt outshut replacing integral outshut, C20 eyebrow dormers.
RCHM recorded evidence of smoke-blackening in roof, C17 chamfered
beam with runout stops to inserted ceiling. C16 origin as cottage
open to roof, similar to The Cottage (q.v.) to which it is
attached.
(Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).

Listing NGR: SU1707821360

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26274356

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)