Английская Википедия:Diamond Cottage

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox building Diamond Cottage is a rustic cottage designed by John Nash (1752–1835) and George Stanley Repton (died 1858) in Blaise Hamlet, Bristol, England. The picturesque cottage is one of a group of ten built around 1810 as retirement homes for the servants of a wealthy banker.

Location

The land on which the cottage stands is part of an estate purchased by John Scandrett Harford, a banker, for £13,000 in 1789. Harford had a substantial house built and asked the landscape architect Humphry Repton to lay out the grounds. Repton became a partner of John Nash, whom Harford commissioned to design a group of cottages as homes for his retired servants. Nash created sketches of the cottages, which George Repton built.Шаблон:Sfn The cottages surround an open green.Шаблон:Sfn Each cottage faces the green and has a separate back garden.Шаблон:Sfn They were described by Pevsner as "...the nec plus ultra of picturesque layout and design".Шаблон:Sfn

When built, the cottages would have been set in open country. Since then the group of cottages has been surrounded by a high wall, which hides the modern housing around them.Шаблон:Sfn The hamlet became a National Trust property in 1943.Шаблон:Sfn Diamond Cottage was made a listed building, grade I: buildings of exceptional interest, on 8 January 1959.Шаблон:Sfn It is listed as 901-1/20/1341, no. 2 Blaise Hamlet, Diamond Cottage on Hallen Road.Шаблон:Sfn The exterior has been carefully restored, while the interior has been modernised and is still occupied.Шаблон:Sfn The cottage is rented by the National Trust.Шаблон:Sfn

Description

The picturesque style Diamond Cottage was built in 1812.Шаблон:Sfn It is faced with random rubble. The hipped roof is tiled in stone, and has two diagonally-set brick chimney stacks to the rear. On two sides there is a pent roof over a deep coved eave, with a leaded lattice casement in each wall. The cottage is entered from the left through a plank door in a porch with a pitched roof.Шаблон:Sfn Before renovation it had a kitchen, sitting room, scullery and outside lavatory.Шаблон:Sfn The attic with a half dormer is reached by a dogleg stairway. The cottage interior was modernised around 1975.Шаблон:Sfn

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