Description

SY 08 NW WOODBURY WOODBURY SALTERTON (east side)

2/134 Downham's Cottage
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- II

Detached cottage. Late C16, with later alterations and additions. Plastered cob
on stone footings; half-hipped thatched roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage
plan house, the higher end to the right of passage; front internal lateral stack
heats hall; left-hand external end stack heats service end; inner room unheated.
All stacks with brick shafts. Brick rear outshut under catslide. 2 storeys.
Front: 3 window range; early C19 2- and 3-light casement windows to 1st floor, that
to the service-end chamber quite early C19; five 2- and 3-light casement windows to
ground floor.
Interior: 2 plank and muntin screens, the to the passage and the other between hall
and inner room, chamfered, carpenter's mitres, and stopped, the panels to the
passage screen cut away above. Passage-screen bressumer with run-out stops. Deep
chamfered axial ceiling beam to inner room; 3 cross ceiling beams to hall with run-
out stops and bar; chamfered cross beam to service end with similar stops. One
jointed cruck truss to service end; the other 2 trusses appear to be raised crucks,
all morticed and pegged; no evidence of smoke-blackening.

Listing NGR: SY0115689156

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26439810

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014