West Street ~ Cowards Lake

(Grade II listed as part of no 13)

(Grade II listed)

The barn in the upper photographs appears in the Appreciation as "barn next to 13 West Street" and is described there as a "single storey barn" having windows "in west flank high level loft with wood shutters". It is nearing the end of being incorporated into no 13, and being converted to residential use. It contains, like many other village cottages, a fair selection of stones that have found their way from the Abbey.

Likewise, no 13 itself contains a selection of decorated Abbey stone throughout the house. Externally, the Appreciation comments on the "stone lintols with central keystone". The house is now called "Cowards Lake" after the stream which flows alongside it from the Ridgeway down to the sea. "Lake" is apparently the Saxon word for a slow-flowing stream, and not a confusion with Cowards Lane across the road; but given the gradient involved, "slow-flowing" is not always an accurate description of the stream.

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