Cottages and Terraces

Kingsland Terrace, west side
brick front with clay bat side and back
Rear of Kinsland Terrace
Under renovation, showing clay bats
Hope Cottage, Silver Street
A pair of cootages on a brick plinth. The original render was squared to imitate masonry.
53 and 55 Silver Street
Brick front to a clay bat sides and rear
64, High Street
Brick front with clay bat sides and rear
Little White House, West End
Typical rendered clay bat wall with plinth and odd window shapes
38, 40 Back Street
brick front and clay bat rear and sides
Pixie Cottage. Back Street
Clay bat with pebble dash
Church Path cottages
Associated with the Six Bells pub
29, High Street
Brick front, clay bat rear and sides
Cottages, Springhead
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
Buttway Cottages
3 cottages built for farmworkers
Cottages Gardiners Lane
Clay bat with cob raised on a wall
Cottages, Gardiners Lane
left: Cob upper storey on brick wall. Right: clay bat with new extension
Kingsland Terrace
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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