Thatched Roof Thursday #59 - Hill Wootton

The Thatched Cottage, Hill Wootton,

dating back to around the 17th Century with 3 charming eyebrow dormers.

Yes, they call this huge looking home a 'cottage'.  

Hill Wootton is a hamlet of 

Leek Wootton and Guy's Cliffe Parish Council.

Here is the full text of this British Listed Building:

'Circa C17 timber-framed cottage range much refaced in red brick. Timber framing

exposed on front elevation. Steeply pitched thatched roof with gabled ends.

Sandstone foundations. One storey and attic. 2:3:4-light casements and modern

plank door with thatched hood. Three eyebrow dormers at eaves. Three brick

ridge chimney stacks.'

Both photographs were taken last week.

A Modest Abode, Hill Wootton, Warwickshire

Blackdown Mill

Hill Wootton can be found just off the main road between Royal Leamington Spa and Kenilworth.  Every time I drive by I am tempted to explore.  Well, now I have.  This enormous Grade II Listed Building has history linking the mill with Coombe Abbey. A historian I am not so I will spare you the injustice of trying to summarise the titbits of information scattered on the web, except to say that this is an 18th Century mill house sitting nicely along side the River Avon and it is now a home.

Too dark to photo thru port cullis to see mill driving cog wheels, etc.

PS.  I may have learned something totally unrelated to
this house but to do with the word 'titbits'.  Now I always thought
that word was 'tidbits'.  Could it  be that 'tid' is a US variation of
the word.  Apparently so....but after living in the UK for nearly 40 years...well, I am surprised.