Listing Text

SX 87 SW OGWELL EAST OGWELL VILLAGE

2/13 Buttercombe Cottage
23.8.55
- II

House, probably a farmhouse originally. Late C16 or C17 or possibly earlier.
Rendered stone and (possibly) cob. Thatched roof, gabled each end. 3-room and
through-passage plan, with solid wall between former hall and parlour. 1½-storeys.
Front doorway, left of centre, has chamfered wood frame with cranked head; plank
door, C20 lean-to porch. To left of it front wall replaced by garage doors. To
right, rectangular projection, probably an oven. Irregular fenestration, all with
C19 wood casements or C20 replicas. 4 windows to right of ground storey, 3 swept
dormers to left of second storey. Chimney-stacks all on the ridge of roof. Former
hall stack has late C19 or C20 brick shafts; pair of attached stone stacks between
hall and parlour have rectangular shafts with projecting course of slates forming
base to tapered caps. Interior: ground storey rooms have chamfered ceiling-beams
with rounded step-stops. Hall and parlour fireplaces have chamfered wood lintels,
the former also with rounded step-stops. No fireplace visible in lower room (now
garage). Rear end of through-passage occupied by a window, but cracked doorheads
(as at front) visible above it externally. Roof-trusses mostly have plain feet,
but 2 pairs of side-pegged jointed crucks over hall and passage. Roof-space not
inspected.

Listing NGR: SX8405370093