Building record 149/2 - Wood Cottage, Roe Park

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56564 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

A mid to late seventeenth century farmhouse built of coursed sandstone rubble with a slate roof (originally thatched). It is a two storey building which was originally in two cells, but has had extensions and additions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entrance front: twentieth century porch to right with glazed door. To left of this, at ground floor level, is one three-light and one two-light casement window. There is one nineteenth century two-light gabled dormer window to the first floor on the right hand side. The left hand gable end has moulded ashlar kneelers and coping and a two-light nineteenth century casement window placed within a larger window opening, partially blocked with brickwork. The rear has a rendered plinth and a twentieth century doorway on the right hand side with an ashlar lintel. To the left is one single-light window and at far left a single-light inglenook window with a chamfered ashlar surround, now blocked, to the right of which is the end of the bressumer beam.

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 309/2, 1838 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The farm house is depicted on the tithe map for Odd Rode township. The accompanying award describes it as 'two cottages and two gardens'.

<3> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.II p.309 (Book). SCH3228.

<4> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

The building is depicted on this map, but not named.