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Swiss Cottage — Newtown Road

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Swiss Cottage — Newtown Road
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Detached three-bay two-storey Tudor-style house with half-dormer attic, c.1880, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch, single-bay two-storey side elevations to east and to west having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting bay to west, single-bay two-storey return to south, and two-bay single-storey flat-roofed range along side (east) elevation. Extended, c.1980, comprising three-bay single-storey lean-to range along rear (south) elevation to accommodate part commercial use. Refenestrated, pre-1999. Now entirely in residential use. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Flat roofs to porches and to return not visible behind parapets. Lean-to artificial slate roof to additional range with rendered coping, and plastic rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rendered stepped buttresses, and rendered parapets to porches and to return. Square-headed window openings (some paired, some in bipartite arrangement, and some originally in tripartite arrangement) with rendered sills, and hood mouldings over. Replacement uPVC casement windows, pre-1999, with some openings retaining original 1/1 timber sash windows. Four-centred-headed door opening in four-centred-headed recess with replacement timber panelled door, pre-1999. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam drive to front, and landscaped grounds to site.

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