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Cove Cottage

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Cove Cottage
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Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800. Lobby entry, linear plan, outbuilding to south-west, projecting porch with rounded corners. Pitched straw thatched roof to main building and outbuilding, scalloped at raised ridge and eaves, painted smooth rendered brick chimneystack in centre of main ridge with mortar apron, porch within main thatch roofing. Limewashed smooth rendered walling. Square-headed window openings to south elevation, painted timber four pane casements, horizontal wrought-iron bars. Square-headed door opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. Set back from road, bounded by partially painted concrete block wall with saddle-back coping, concrete block piers, shallow pyramidal caps, painted cast-iron gate.
This thatched dwelling has interesting ridge details, original small window openings and rounded porch. A sense of enclosure is creating by the freestanding outbuilding to the south-west.

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