The 'Bottle Cottages', Coleshill
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The 'Bottle Cottages', Coleshill
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 31 Mar 2013
The name 'Bottle Cottages' is given in the Buckinghamshire volume of Pevsner's 'The Buildings of England' - I believe they are now known as 'Coleshill Cottages'. The bottles in question - or at least their bottom ends - figure as decoration high in the gables, where the date of building is given as 1809: Image It looks to me as if the geometrical patterning of brick and flint (diapering) on the end wall was once more extensive - part having been lost when windows were fitted, part lost simply through wear and tear in the course of two centuries.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.651274
Longitude
-0.628955