Description

PLYMTREE
ST 00 SE
3/124 Nos 1 and 2 Hayne Cottages
- (Fordmoor Cottages on the O.S Map)
GV II

Pair of cottages. Circa 1840, extensions of circa 1970. Local hard, grey limestone
rubble with larger more neatly cut quoins; stone rubble stacks and divided,
diagonally set chimneyshafts including a couple of original large conical
chimneypots (made of plastered brick); thatch roof.
Plan: pair of contemporary cottages in an L-plan block. Both have 2-room plans,
with an axial stack between serving back-to-back fireplaces. Both have a doorway
into the front end. No. 1 (to right) faces the road to the south. No 2 is at the
right angles and faces west. 2 storeys with circa 1970 2-storey extensions on the
east and north sides. Tudor Gothic style.
Exterior: the windows are mostly original; they are timber mullioned and most have
transoms. All have Tudor style hoodmoulds. The windows of No 2 still contain
original leaded glass but most of those in No 1 have been replaced. Each front end
contains an original plank door behind a thatched roofed porcn with trefoil-headed
lancets each side. Above is a 2-light window. Each inner side has a 1-window front
with a gable rising over the first floor window. Each wing roof is half-hipped at
the front.
Interiors: not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST0601403032

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390327

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (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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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)