Description

SE 18 NW COVERHAM WITH AGGLETHORPE COTESCUE PARK

10/8 Cotescue Park: house with
13/2/67 cottage attached at rear.

GV II

House and cottage. Late C18 house with early - mid C19 extension and
cottage. Coursed rubble, some roughcast, with ashlar dressings, stone slate
roof. 2-storeys, house of 5:3 bays, with rear ranges at right angles to
left and right, and cottage attached to end of right range. Main house:
plinth, rusticated quoins. Central, C19, closed, flat-roofed porch with
6-panel door in eared architrave with pulvinated frieze and pediment. Sash
windows with glazing bars in moulded surrounds, that above door eared and
slightly raised in centre. Wooden modillion cornice. Shaped kneelers,
ashlar copings, corniced ashlar end stacks. Range to right: roughcast
rubble, stone slate roof. Sash windows with glazing bars in ashlar
surrounds and, in centre, on first floor, a medieval quatrefoil with shield
below. Shaped kneeler, ashlar coping, corniced ashlar stack to end right.
Right return and wing: roughcast rubble. Doorway with re-set lintel with
convex-chamfered, triangular-soffit lintel, inscribed "1662 GH" on face,
"AH" on spandrels. Cottage: 2-storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Openings in
ashlar surrounds. 6-panel C19 door below overlight. 12-pane unequally-hung
sash windows. Stacks between bays 1 and 2 and at end right. Left return:
rendered. C19 projecting square bay window on ground floor. Interior: main
house: early - mid C19 cornices, Victorian staircase. Initials over side
door said to refer to George Horner, d.l676.

Listing NGR: SE1062686891

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423869

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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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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)