FOWKE STREET COTTAGES

There are three cottages in Fowke Street that are Listed Buildings and they are most attractive.
One is a timber framed 17th century cottage with whitewashed render with a high rendered plinth and thatch roof with a brick central ridge and end stacks. It has two storeys of three 3-light centre-opening casements with three 6/2 sash windows on the ground floor. Centre right is a wooden doorcase with bracketed hood and 6-panelled door up a short flight of stone steps. Three bays of timber framing in large rectangular or square panels. It has diagonal braces. The framing continues on the right end, with 2-light horizontal sliding sash on ground floor and 2-light casement above.

Another cottage was built in 1727 and has a whitewashed render with a high rendered plinth and a Welsh slate roof with a right end stack. It has two storeys of two 2-light casements. A central part-glazed door with slated canopy up a flight of steps. Dated 1727 in large numbers in original brickwork along the front above the ground floor.

The third cottage was built in the late 16th century/early 17th century. It is cruck framed and whitewashed brick with a granite rubble stone plinth and Welsh slate roof with brick left centre front and right end stacks. It has two storeys of three 2-light horizontal sliding sash windows. There are two similar windows on the ground floor and a glazed door to the left up a flight of steps. A cruck blade is partly visible in the front wall.

(Information at January 2006.)