Fourways (21) & Forge Cottage (22), Allerford, Holnicote Estate

Summary

Generally well-preserved example of the typical late Victorian stone-built semi-detached agricultural workers estate cottages, with many original features including three fireplaces in Forge Cottage. Two storey, welsh slate roofs over walls of rubble stone, rough rendered and limewashed.

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Reflected pair of two storey cottages, single pile, with two storey but lower contemporary addition on each gable end. Single ridge roof with central shared axial stack. Lean-to porch in front angles between main block and side wings. Rear with lean-to at each end, and rear porch against main building and lean-to. No. 21 with added external stack on gable end, No. 22 with internal corner stack.

Roof of Welsh slate with collared ridge tiles. Walls of rubble stone, rough render and limewash with black tar band. Ground floor windows with shallow arched brick lintel, chamfered brick sills. Rear lean-tos brick quoins, all limewashed, concrete sills. Front porches timber, rear porches timber posts.

Built between 1889 and 1903, these were the second pair of new cottages in Allerford ( 26 and 27 [ 115,026] were the first), probably part of the major programme of renovation and new build undertaken by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, XIth baronet, after he inherited the estate. ( 1889 and 1903 OS Somerset sheet XXXIV.2, scale 1:2,500). The cottages were built on an open site, but at the time of the 1841 Tithe and 1876 Holnicote Estate maps, a cottage existed along the road to the river, aligned northeast- southwest, this had gone by 1889.

Important Features:
External appearance.
Fireplaces in No. 22 ( Forge Cottage), living room and bedrooms F and G all original.
Plank and batten doors and their furniture.
Casement windows and 19c fixtures.
Quarry tile floors in front porches.
Original cupboards in living room, No. 22.

In a good state of repair.

Outbuildings:
21 Allerford:
Garden Store: Single cell, single pitch roof outbuilding, free- standing and open-ended to northwest. Roof of corrugated iron over walls of rustic timbers and boards fixed vertically to rails supported by posts. Mid 20c, shown on 1973 OS map 9047-9147, scale 1:2,500. In a fair state of repair.

21 and 22 Allerford:
Woodshed, Store and Privies: Reflected pair of single storey outbuildings, gable ended roof, with privies lean-to at rear, with roof slope continuous but shallower. Roof of double roman tiles with matching ridge tiles over walls of rubble stone, brick quoins and jambs. Late 19c, shown on 1903 OS Somerset Sheet XXXIV.2 but not on 1889 1st edition. Important features: external appearance; cobbled floors in Woodshed and Store; plank doors and fixtures, particularly thumblatch on Privy 4b. In a fair state of repair - four tiles missing on southeast verge of Store. [1]

21 (Fourways): Northerly cottage of a pair built for agricultural workers between 1889 and 1903 (O.S. map evidence). An earlier cottage was completely removed from the area that is now the garden [MNA141354], it is shown on the 1876 Holnicote Estate map. Ground floor accommodation is two main rooms, with a rear lean-to, and porches over front and back doors. There are three bedrooms on the first floor. The roof is slated, on nailed common rafters, with a central axial stack which serves both cottages. Walls are rendered and limewashed rubble stone.

22 (Forge Cottage): Southern cottage of the pair (see site 115021 [this record], with reflected plan. This cottage still has the original late19c fireplaces, with a very good ground floor cast iron surround in the living room and two smaller cast iron fireplaces in good order in the bedrooms. Otherwise as site 115021. The blacksmith lived in the cottage in the early 20c, hence its name. [2]

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