Description

SE 2807 CAWTHORNE NORCROFT LANE
(South side)

10/66 Nos 4 & 6 Upper
Norcroft Cottages

II

Two cottages. C17 or early C18, altered. Coursed squared stone with quoins.
Stone slate roof. Two storeys. Four bays. Both cottages have a quoined
entrance with a 2-light double-chamfered window to its right. In each case
there is a shared stepped hoodmould, that to left with a spiral stop at left
end. Other windows, including the four at first floor level are later
insertions. Chamfered gable copings on moulded kneelers to left. Two later
brick ridge stacks. Rear: 4 bays of 3-light double-chamfered windows.
Quoined entrance between bays 1 & 2 above which the ground floor dripmould
rises as a hood. Later door inserted betweeen bays 2 & 3. Square tablet
with octagonal blocked opening at high level to right.

Interior: In each case the lobby entrance is against a central stack and
both retain a firehood bressumer on posts, arched for the doorway. This is
elaborately moulded in the case of the right cottage, but plainer in the
left.

P F Ryder, Report for South Yorkshire Archaeological Service. 7.11.79

Listing NGR: SE2867807065

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444755

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)