Stable Cottage, Seale (2)
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Stable Cottage, Seale (2)
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 10 Dec 2014
One of a number of buildings in this village which are built of clunch - squared blocks of chalk. Stable Cottage - as the name suggests - was once a stable block, now converted for residential purposes. Clunch is not normally reckoned to be a sound material for external work, except when protected by a cladding of less soluble material. Nonetheless, here in Seale there seems to be a well-established tradition of building in clunch - even the church is clunch-built http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4275118 . The chalk may have been quarried quite close by; http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4276562 Stable Cottage is listed, Grade II: http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1294487
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Image Location
Latitude
51.223097
Longitude
-0.718757