Building record 1483800000 - Primrose Cottage, Main Road

Primrose Cottage is a late 19th century Rothschild estate building. The building forms part of a group of late 19th century buildings which pick up on the architectural styles of George Devey in the School House and Village Hall and the style of picturesque estate architecture associated with the Rothschild family. The buildings within this group are typically detached and use a mixed palette of materials, typically brick, pebbledash/render and hung tiles. Primrose Cottage juxtaposes brick to the ground floor with render to the first floor and decorative hung tiles within the apexes of the gabled dormers. The roof is gabled and steeply pitched, laid in clay tiles and punctuated by dormers. The ridgeline, which runs parallel with the carriageway, is broken by a centrally positioned cluster of brick chimney stacks. The building is significant because of its association with the Rothschild family, because of its architectural detailing and because it reflects a period of agricultural prosperity within the village during the latter half of the 19th century. A 'Local Building of Note' within the Conservation Area of Buckland (B1).