Description

SX 78 NW
4/101

CHAGFORD
EASTON
Whiteabury Cottage

GV
II

Cottage. Mid C17. Plastered granite rubble; granite rubble stack with plastered
brick chimney shaft; thatch roof.
Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing south-east. The larger left (south-western) room
has a projecting end stack. The original stair rose alongside the fireplace. C20
stairs in wide central through passage. Right room has an inserted end stack.
Outshot to rear of right room may be original. Main house is 2 storeys.
Exterior: irregular 3-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Central
passage doorway contains a C20 plank door. Roof is gable-ended. Probably C19
woodshed on right end has leanto roof (now asbestos slates). Rear outshot has slate
roof.
Interior: the C17 fabric is mostly intact. The main room to left has a soffit-
chamfered crossbeams and late step stops, the same finish as the oak lintel of the
granite fireplace. Roof of C17 A-frame trusses and the foot of one is exposed
enough to show that it is lap-jointed onto a vertical post buried in the wall. The
roofspace was not examined. Most of the joinery detail is C20.

Listing NGR: SX7200088535

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595289

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)