Cottages and Terraces
brick front with clay bat side and back
Under renovation, showing clay bats
A pair of cootages on a brick plinth. The original render was squared to imitate masonry.
Brick front to a clay bat sides and rear
Brick front with clay bat sides and rear
Typical rendered clay bat wall with plinth and odd window shapes
brick front and clay bat rear and sides
Clay bat with pebble dash
Associated with the Six Bells pub
Brick front, clay bat rear and sides
This pair of cottages does not appear on the 1841 Tithe Map. they are made entirely of clay bats on a flint plinth. The matching adjoining wash-houses are now demolished
3 cottages built for farmworkers
Clay bat with cob raised on a wall
left: Cob upper storey on brick wall. Right: clay bat with new extension
Brick to the street but clay bat elsewhere.
Many of the houses built in the village between 1850 and 1920 were built either entirely or with some element of clay bat or cob in their construction.
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