208 Cottage Lane

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HOUSE
c. 1920, 1950s
Oriented sideways on the lot with the entrance facing south, this one-story, side-gabled house has been altered and enlarged to the point that it is difficult to discern the form of the historic house. It is five bays wide and single-pile with full-width, shed-roofed wings across the façade and rear (north) elevation with an enclosed inset porch at the west end of the façade. The house has been covered with vinyl siding, two interior brick chimneys, and a combination of four-over-four and eight-over-eight wood-sash windows. An inset porch on the left (west) end of the façade shelters a six-panel door and has been enclosed with screens. To its immediate right (east) is a fixed ten-light window. Windows on the right two bays of the façade and rear elevation are metal-framed, one-over-one windows and indicate a later construction date. There is a gabled, screened porch on the right end of the house supported by square posts. According to Sanborn maps, the house was constructed between 1915 and 1925.

In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

SOURCE: Heather Wagner Slane, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, Orange County, OR1750 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 2015), courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.