Description

STOKEINTEIGNHEAD STOKE ROAD (west side),
SX 9070-9170 Stokeinteignhead
17/406 Pair of cottages about 25 metres
- north-west of Higher Farm

GV II

2 cottages, probably one build. Late C17 origins, the left end remodelled in the
C18. Rendered cob and stone rubble; slate roof, gabled at left end, hipped at right
end; projecting left end stack, 2 rear lateral stacks.
Plan: Single depth main range, 3 rooms wide with a passage to left of centre with a
stair to the rear, access to the stair from the left hand room. A fourth room, a
narrow unheated service room, at the right end. Probably an adaptation or
remodelling of a C17 3 room and passage plan, lower end to the left. There is a
thick cross wall between the 2 large right hand rooms and there may have been some
rebuilding or addition at the right end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3:2 window front (first floor window right
blind), the left hand cottage 3 window wide with a central C19 or C20 plank front
door with a horizontal porch hood with a decorated canopy. C19 or C20 plank front
door to the right hand cottage at the extreme right. C19 or C20 2 and 3 light timber
casement windows with glazing bars except one which is a late C20 replacement.
Interior: The left hand room has a C17 chamfered scroll-stopped crossbeam. The C18
stair that rises in the rear right corner has a winder with a very wide straight
flight (above the passage). The rear lateral stack of the centre room is partly
concealed by the left hand partition of the room; there seems to be some evidence of
a plank and muntin screen, covered by wallpaper, on the right hand wall. C18 2-panel
doors and one door with fielded panels survive in the left hand cottage. The right
hand cottage interior is plain, with no exposed carpentry. A winder stair with a
straight flight rises from within the service room at the right end.
Roof: Right hand end only inspected. A-frames. Group value with Higher Farm.

Listing NGR: SX9164470380

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389851

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)