Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Kent Cottage | |
| parish |
Cockermouth parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
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| 10Km square:- |
NY13
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| KENT COTTAGE / / / COCKERMOUTH / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 490631 / | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Small house. Late C18,incorporating elements of an earlier dwelling , and now with minor C20 alterations. Rubble stone with painted render coat to front elevation, gable chimeys and a slate roof covering. | ||
| PLAN: Continuous rear offshut plan, the offshut accommodating the stair and the ground floor service rooms. | ||
| EXTERIOR: Near-symmetrical front elevation of 2 storeys and 2 bays, with central doorway enclosed within later gabled open porch. 4-panel front door with pointed heads to upper panels. Flanking the doorway are stacked 6 over 6 pane sash windows within painted dressed stone surrounds. Rear elevation now partially enclosed within late C20 greenhouse, but with 2-light mullioned window to ground floor kitchen and 2 over 2 pane sash to stair landing. | ||
| INTERIOR: 2 ground floor rooms each with late C18 hearth surrounds, that to left-hand living room with moulded mantle shelf and added C19 brick oven to left. Parlour with smaller hearth with moulded surround. Both rooms retain wide late C18 3-panel doors. The wall between the kitchen and the living room incorporates a re-sited spice cupboard. Stair within rear offshut has stone steps, slender turned balusters and a moulded ramped handrail. Flanking walls incorporate windows for borrowed light. Upper floor bedrooms with plank doors and small contemporary hearths. Forms a group with 'Midtown'(q.v.)to the north. | ||
| SOURCE: [bullet] Brunskill, R.W. Traditional Buildings of Cumbria. pp 77-79. 2002. | ||
| Kent Cottage is of special architectural interest as a little altered and well- preserved example of a continuous rear offshut plan house, retaining much original historic fabric and contemporary fixtures and fittings. The continuous rear offshut is recognised as a characteristic Cumbrian vernacular plan type for the period 1730 to 1830. It has strong group value with the adjacent listed 'Midtown'. | ||
| placename:- | Kent Cottage | |
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building | ||
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| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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