Building record 1244/9/2 - Gardener's Cottage and detached WC

{1} There is little to date this estate-worker's cottage other than to note it is depicted on the 1840 Tithe Map. The cottage is principally of stone but for the gables destroyed by fire in 1986, subsequently re-made in contrasting brick. The fire destroyed the roof and almost all of the timbers at first floor level so everything at this level is of 1987 or after. The roof is thatch. A central chimney stack hints at an early date, perhaps the C17th, but the small scale of the rooms to be heated means that this may be an anachronistice layout of the C18th. The ground floor is divided into two unequal parts. In the central dividing wall lies a fireplace flanked by a doorway and a copper. The copper may hint at either a former wash-house or the means of boiling up swill for animals.
Between the cottage and the main house stands what is currently an outside toilet. This building first appears on the map of 1925. Two previous maps in 1900 and 1914 show a walled area without a roof but it is uncertain if this is the same building.

<1> Soden, I. & Prentice, J., 2006, The Old Dower House, Cosgrove, Northamptonshire: Archaeological buildings recording and analysis, (checked) (Report). SNN108002.

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