Description

WARBSTOW FONSTON
SX 29 SW
3/244 Fonston Cottage and adjoining
- outbuilding to front right

II

Small house and outbuilding to front right. Probably early C18. Rendered and
painted stone rubble and cob. Rag slate roof with half hipped end on left and gable
end on right. Rebuilt brick shaft to end stack on right.
Plan: 2-room and through passage plan with entrance to left of centre. Large room,
the hall-kitchen on right heated by end stack and smaller unheated room on left.
Circa C19 porch added to front and C20 1-room plan extension added to rear. C19
outbuilding on front right.
Exterior: 2-storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front with complete C19 casements.
Circa C19 gabled stone rubble porch with plank door to left of centre, flanked by two
2-light casements. Two similar casements asymmetrically placed on first floor. C20
garage added on the left hand side and C19 wall and outbuilding to front right; of
rendered and painted stone rubble and cob with lean-to slate roof. C19 3-light
casement in outbuilding.
Interior: Unaltered. Entrance directly into larger right hand room with partition
on left. C20 fireplace.

Listing NGR: SX2147691225

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613372

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