Stable Cottage, Seale (1)
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Stable Cottage, Seale (1)
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 10 Dec 2014
A former stable block, converted for residential purposes. The pale stone from which it is built is clunch - in other words, chalk. Though the material is quite widely met with across Surrey, it is unusual to find sizeable buildings made from scratch using squared blocks of clunch. More often, clunch is seen in cottages and other small-scale buildings of more or less indeterminate age - used in piecemeal fashion alongside brick, timber and other local stone. At Seale, even the church is largely clunch-built http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4275118 as is a substantial building in Wood Lane. Notice that the high wall along the property boundary at Stable Cottage is also of clunch. Stable Cottage is listed, Grade II: http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1294487
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Image Location
Latitude
51.223099
Longitude
-0.7189