Description

ATHERINGTON ATHERINGTON
SS 52 SE
5/31 Mole Cottage and cottage
- adjoining to east

GV II

House and cottage adjoining to east. Formerly one tenement farmhouse, the lower
end rebuilt as small single cell cottage, the house part itself later divided into
2 cottages (as at time of previous survey) but now returned to single occupation.
C17, lower end rebuilt probably in late C18. Rendered stone rubble and cob.
Thatch roof with gable ends, the cottage with lower ridge height. Rendered rubble
stack at right end and rear lateral hall stack with off-sets. Brick stack at left
end. Through-passage plan, with front and rear openings now blocked, hall and
parlour to right. Lower end possibly originally a shippon rebuilt as small single
cell cottage.
2 storeys. 5 window range. C19/C20 fenestration, 2-light casements, 2 panes per
light. 2 large buttresses to Mole Cottage. Ground floor has 2-light casement, 6
panes per light to left of C20 door to cottage. Two 3-light casements, 2 panes per
light, that to left inserted in blocked through-passage doorway. Doorway punched
through into hall with plank door, and 2-light casement 2 panes per light at right
end. Leanto at right end with corrugated asbestos roof. Hall and parlour windows
to rear built out in line with hall stack with pantiled canopy.
Interior: ceiling beams to hall and parlour with wide chamfers and step stops. A
section of the through-passage plank and muntin hall screen survives, 4 panels wide
and 4-centred arch to chamfered door surround with old 3 plank door. Enclosed
under the introduced stairs in the hall is a straight-headed C17 door surround
corresponding with a similar door surround in the chamber above, both set in the
wall and indicating that a former projecting stair turret has been demolished. C17
roof structure largely intact with 3 heavy trusses with short curved feet, lap-
jointed collars and 2 tiers of trenched purlins and diagonally set ridge purlin.
No sign of smoke-blackening.

Listing NGR: SS5912022972

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545190

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)