Otter's Cottages, off Newark Road, Lincoln
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Otter's Cottages, off Newark Road, Lincoln
Image: © Rory Taken: 31 Aug 2009
Row of 9 Victorian 3 bedroomed, terraced cottages with date stone reading 'Otter's Cottages 1880', situated off unadopted pathway just off Newark Road, close to St. Catherine's area Built of red brick, originally with slate roofs to front and red clay pantile to rear; only 2 cottages now retain original Georgian-style timber sash windows. Each cottage has a privy [now disused!] and coal shed to rear; the smallest 1st floor bedroom in numbers 2 thro' 9 has been converted to a bathroom. Number 1 has a modern, single storey bathroom / utility extension to the rear, built late 1980's. As at August 2009, new build of 4 small terraced cottage-style houses being erected on land due west of Otter's Cottages; this area was originally part of 'Otter's Field' and freeholders of Otter's Cottages held the right to drive pigs down to the field twice a year.
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Image Location
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53.210141
Longitude
-0.550512