Commissioners Cottages, Normans Bay Road
| Commissioners Cottages, Normans Bay Road | |
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| LL ref: | 389 |
| Start date: | 1890s |
| Architect: | unknown |
| Builder: | unknown |
| Original use: | Residential |
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The semi-detached pair of cottages were built for the Commissioner of the Levels in the late 19th Century. It was his job to oversee the complicated business of maintaining the water levels and preventing flooding. Their height makes it easy to view all around from the top floor - over the adjacent Waller's Haven, the sluices and the beach.
The cottages are now one property. It has rendered elevations (currently pink) with unusually high solid to void ratio having small paired sash windows on the seaward façade (4 over 2), a gabled enclosed porch, a steep slated roof with gables at each end and a pair of dorners with gable ended roofs. The south-west facing side elevation is clad in weatherboard.
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