LOCK COTTAGE


Description:  House, of two storeys, timber framed and weatherboarded, with a slated hipped roof, was built circa 1810 as a lock-keeper's dwelling. Its non traditional plan consists of large rooms on the front, with a central stack, and lesser rooms at the rear flanking a stair. The roof whose ridge is central over the front rooms extends over the rear rooms in the manner of a salt box house of New England.

Country:  ENGLAND

County:  CAMBRIDGESHIRE

District:  EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Parish:  SWAFFHAM BULBECK

Grid Reference:   TL523672

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 552300, 267200

Period:  POST MEDIEVAL, 1800 - 1820

Subject:  EXTANT BUILDING, LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE, TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: TL 56 NW 53
[ADS] Import RCN: NMR_NATINV-505715

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Historic England