Cosby, Croft Road From The Nook c.1965

Photo ref: C433009

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Cosby presents a most unusual configuration for a Leicestershire village, which with care and attention over the years could have been described as picturesque. The openness of the village centre is striking, with some good later 18th/early 19th-century houses ranging either side of the grass-banked brook, with its modest urban district council railings and fin- ger post. In the background is a substantial brick and timber framed barn dated 1766 - this is the date of the brickwork, the timbering being considerably older. As so often happens in the county, the quality of the village has gone unsung, with the brook, its major natural asset, now being forced between crazy-paved walls instead of gently enhanced - a pity. In Forryan Close a framework knitting shop survives.