Listed Building: BICKLEY TOWN COTTAGES, WITH STORE SHEDS AT REAR (1135798)

BICKLEY C.P. BICKLEY TOWN SJ 54 NW 3/8 Nos.1 and 2, Bickley Town Cottages, with store sheds at rear. II Farmhouse (Bickley Town) early C17, divided into 2 cottages probably mid C19, of brick-nogged oak small framing with narrow panels and large timbers, much replaced in brick (painted as framing). Tiled roof of steep pitch, formerly thatched. 2-storeys. Each cottage has a boarded door in open porch with gabled slate roof on brackets and a 1-storey canted lattice bay window with hipped slate roof, with a gabled half-dormer lattice casement above (bargeboards and finials); No.1 has a narrow staircase lattice window at centre of front; lattice casements in end gables. The lattice windows are of cast iron. Projecting brick chimney on each gable; central ridge chimney. Each cottage has a 1-storey gabled shed at rear, mid C19, of brick painted as framing; that to No.1 has a slate roof, that to No.2 is replaced in corrugated asbestos. The sheds appear to have been built as small farm buildings in the mid C19 when the Marquess of Cholmondeley was active in the movement to give plots of land to farm workers. Interior: No.2 has 2 large chamfered oak beams. Plans altered mid C19. Listing NGR: SJ5308648606