Description

PARRACOMBE CHURCHTOWN, Parracombe
SS 64 SE
6/132 Cottage approximately 1 metre east
- of Court Place Farmhouse
- II
Cottage. Probably late C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Stone rubble faced with
corrugated iron. Corrugated asbestos roof with gable ends. Tall stone rubble stack
with tapering cap at right gable end and rear lateral stone rubble stack heating
left-hand room, enclosed by rear dairy outshut.
2-room and cross-passage plan, the wide passage containing straight-run staircase on
right side, and partitioned on left side to create a narrow unheated centrl room
with rear doorway through to dairy outshut, added probably in late C18.
2 storeys. 3-window range. Early C20 fenestration. All 2-light casements, 4 panes
per light to upper storey. 6 panes per light to ground floor flanking wide C20
lean-to porch.
Interior: right-hand room has chamfered axial ceiling beam. C19 fireplace lintel
conceals original one. Roughly chamfered door surround to rear passage doorway.
Lime ash floor to dairy outshut. Left-hand room altered in C20, but original
fireplace probably survives. Upstairs joinery and staircase unaltered since C19.

Listing NGR: SS6743644863

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26400623

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)