Listed Building: PEAR TREE COTTAGE, THORNLEIGH, MALLARD COTTAGE, ORCHARD COTTAGE AND FRONT WALL (467765)

WEYMOUTH SY68SE NOTTINGTON LANE, Nottington 873-1/2/450 (West side) 14/06/74 Pear Tree Cottage, Thornleigh, Mallard Cottage, Orchard Cottage and front wall (Formerly Listed as: NOTTINGTON LANE, Nottington The Orchard, Newburys, Thornleigh, Pear Tree) II Terrace of 4 cottages. Dated 1819. Rubble, slate roof. The group reads as 3 houses, but the central door gives to an internal lobby with entries to each side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 windows, all 4-pane sash in flush moulded boxes, probably replacing original 16-pane sashes. Between each pair of lights, on 2 stone steps, the panelled doors; the end units have single doors, and the centre unit a narrow pair. Orchard Cottage has an ogee tent hood on a trellis porch. There are 3 ridge stacks, opposite the doorways. The left, hipped end, has been restructured, and is rendered, but the right (N) gable has a raised and coped parapet with a ball finial. It has a flush elliptical stone panel inscribed S/ T-F/ 1819, above two 12-pane sashes at each level. The rear has a lean-to below 2-light casements; Orchard Cottage has two 2-light casements, and various flat-roofed extensions. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: across the full frontage of the cottages is a rubble boundary wall at the street edge, approx 1m high to a weathered stone coping, and with short return walls to stone steps opposite each of the doorways. Listing NGR: SY6609482476

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