Golly Cottage, Thorverton
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Golly Cottage, Thorverton
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 4 May 2010
Golly Cottage is the half of a pair of thatched cottages that faces The Bury, the village street leading to St Thomas' church http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=12533425 ; Pine Cottage is the other half, and http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=439076&mode=adv suggests that there were once three cottages in the range, and that it may have been a church house. "The gable end of Golly Cottage, facing the Bury is picturesquely irregular with a thatched porch canopy over a panelled front door. 3-light timber casements with small panes, 1 to ground floor, 1 to first floor and 1 to attic ... Scraps of leather and clay bobbins, the latter used for curling wigs, have been found under the attic floorboards indicating the workshop function of the roofspace".
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Image Location
Latitude
50.808983
Longitude
-3.527389