Description

SX 79 SW HITTISLEIGH FURSDON LANE

9/159 Fursdon Cottage

II

House, formerly 2 cottages and adjoining dairy. Mid-late C17. Plastered cob on
rubble footings; cob or rubble stacks with plastered brick shafts; thatched roof.
Originally 2 identical 1-room cottages facing south, each with stack on right end
wall. Adjoining dairy on left (west) end. 2 storeys. Overall vaguely balanced 6-
window front, all circa 1970 casements. Door right of centre with C20 gabled
porch. 4 half-dormers with gabled thatch over are disposed in pairs near each end.
Gable-ended block. Present door in original position for right cottage. Central
window to left marks position of door to left cottage. Left cottage crossbeams are
chamfered with straight-out stops. Oak lintels to fireplaces have scroll stops to
right, straight cut to left. Right cottage has possibly original winder stair, the
lowest step of which is solid oak. 2-bay roof to each cottage on oak A-frame
trusses with dovetail-lap collars and, in left cottage, truss foot is lap-jointed
and pegged on to post, a late form of jointed cruck. Plain carpentry detail to
former dairy.

Listing NGR: SX7202594512

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549733

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)