Description

CREDITON

SX8399 PARK ROAD
672-1/4/134 (South side)
19/03/51 Winswood Cottage, Winswood and
Winswood Spinney

GV II

Farmhouse, divided into a house and 2 cottages. Mid C17
origins with late C17 extensions and thorough remodelling of
the c.1890s. Roughcast cob; thatched roof with plain ridge;
stacks with brick shafts.
Plan: Winswood (to centre) of C17 3-room plan with far left
room being a late C17 addition. Winswood Cottage, adjoining to
right, is a late C17 1-room plan addition. Winswood Spinney
probably a late C19 remodelling and extension of a lean-to
under the hipped end of Winswood. Exterior: 2 storeys.
Winswood and Winswood Cottage have an asymmetrical 4:2 window
front under a hipped thatched roof, plus 2 windows to the C19
addition at the right end. Winswood has a probably C18 gabled
thatched porch on turned timber posts with a room over, to
right of centre. Probably late C19 8-panel front door with
panelled reveals. To the right, an C18 panelled door into the
right hand room with a flat porch hood on brackets. Winswood
fenestrated with probably late C19 12-pane sashes with margin
panes and matching French windows - one on the first floor and
2 on the ground floor. One c.late C17/early C18 3-light
casement survives on the ground floor, to right of centre.
This has square leaded panes and original window furniture. 2
attic windows in the thatch. Winswood Cottage has one late C17
ground floor 3-light casement in the thatched block with
square leaded panes. 2 first floor C19 timber 3-light
casements with glazing bars. The single storey addition at the
right end has a timber shingle roof, half hipped at the right
end, 2 C20 timber casements and a C20 timber front door to the
right. Front of Winswood Spinney not seen on survey. The rear
elevation, facing directly onto Park Road is impressively long
with few openings: Winswood has a shallow canted projection to
first floor, left of centre and a probably late C19
round-headed small-pane sash with margin panes to right of
centre, lighting the stair. 3 very small C20 first floor
windows, one C20 timber ground floor 3-light casement with
glazing bars. The thatched part of Winswood Cottage, to the
left, has a disused C19 plank and cover strip door to right of
centre with an overlight; late C19 ground floor oriel
alongside to the right with high transomed casement windows.
The first floor window is a late C19 2-light casement with
glazing bars and margin panes. The single-storey shingled
addition has 3 small C20 timber windows. Winswood Spinney, to
the right, has a UPVC window to the ground floor. The thatch
is carried down as a verandah on posts at the right (east)
end.
Interior: On the ground floor Winswood retains a good c.mid
C17 parlour fireplace to the room left of the porch, with
local volcanic trap moulded ashlar jambs and an oak
ovolo-moulded lintel. The remainder of the room is entirely
fitted out with late C19 painted panelling, including fielded
panelled doors with moulded doorcases, a timber panelled
ceiling, boxed cornice, Jacobean derived overmantel and
bolection-moulded chimney-piece. The panelling incorporates an
integral writing desk. The left hand room is also fitted out
in a similar style. The room right of the porch has a mid C17
ovolo-moulded crossbeam with scroll stops, C20 chimney-piece.
The right hand room retains parts of an early C19 cornice. The
first floor includes some early C18 doors along with late C19
doors with fielded panels. Room over the porch originally
heated, stack dismantled. Pretty C18 bedroom first floor, left
of centre, with original ceiling rose, moulded cornice and
frieze. The interior of Winswood Cottage has a late C17
chamfered cross beam with scroll nick stop. Roof: Winswood has
a circa mid C17 3-bay A-frame roof over the centre and right
end, the trusses with through purlins, lap-dovetailed pegged
collars, the pegs augmented with metal fixings, original
rafters, diagonaly-set ridge and battens. Date of 1897 with
the initials WB and EG scratched in the plaster on the right
end stack. Feet of principal rafters in Winswood Cottage
indicate a C17 A-frame roof.
Winswood was a farmhouse on the edge of East Town with land
extending to the south-west,now covered with C20 development.
Mrs Drake of Winswood funded the 1920s restoration of the
chapel of St Lawrence, Landscore (q.v.)

Listing NGR: SX8380999940

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504560

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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