Description

LUSTLEIGH
SX 78 SE
1/161

Kelly Cross Cottage

II

Cottage. Late C16 or early C17, with added lean-to. Roughcast cob with thatched
roof, half-hipped at-right-hand side. Rendered stone chimneystack with thatch
weatherings and tapered top on left-hand gable. Projecting brick stack, also
rendered, in right-hand gable. 2-room and through-passage plan, the rear doorway
blocked by a later staircase; larger left-hand room was clearly the hall. 2
storeys. 2 widely-spaced windows wide, with doorway between. Windows have old
wooden casements, except for left-hand ground-storey window which is C20. Plank
door and wooden porch, also C20. In lean-to to left an older plank door with
strap-hinges. In right-hand gable a C18 or early C19 metal casement with leaded
panes; the upper part of the opening, now blocked, rises into the roof-space.
Interior: in left-hand gable in ground storey a fireplace with granite jambs and
chamfered wood lintel having step-stops; large oven in the back. To left of
fireplace a winding granite staircase. In ground-floor room to right a chamfered
upper-floor beam with run-out stops. Roof has 2 original trusses with plain, heavy
principal rafters sitting on the wall-tops; halved collars with shaped ends,
through purlins and ridge. The common rafters seem to have been renewed. The
partition wall and chimney in the roofspace over the room above the hall are
plastered. Well-preserved cottages of this date are uncommon.

Listing NGR: SX7903981901

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26459561

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