Sweetbriar Cottage

Cottage. 1812. By John Nash and George Repton. For JS Harford. Random rubble, brick lateral stacks and a stone tile hipped roof. Single-depth plan. Picturesque style. Single-storey and attic; 1-window range. The front has a tall gabled open porch with a pointed-arched doorway to a plank door, right-hand service block and a left-hand pent over a bench. Leaded casements, to 3-light left-hand end and right-hand pantry windows, and gabled half dormer above the door. Rear chimney block has 4 stellate stacks with moulded caps. INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as having a winder stair, sitting room and pantry. Arranged by Harford for his retired employees. Part of an irregular composition forming ‘…the nec plus ultra of picturesque layout and design,’ (Pevsner). The cottages are laid out around an open green, and were modernised c1975. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 468).