Description

IDDESLEIGH SS 50 NE 4/122 Nos 1 and 2 Week Cottages including adjoining linhay to - north-west II* GV Pair of cottages, originally farmhouse. Circa early-mid C17 altered in C19 or earlier C20. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Gable ended thatch roof. Brick stack at left-hand end, and lateral stack at rear, rubble stack at right gable end with moulded cap and dripcourses. Plan: originally 3-room and through passage plan, lower end to the left with probably integral small service wing behind it. Lower and inner rooms heated by gable end fireplace with newel stairs beside that to the inner room. Hall heated by rear lateral stack (may be original front). Behind inner room is a C17 outbuilding. In the circa later C17 a linhay was built extending behind the service wing. In the later C19 or early C20 the house was downgraded from farmhouse to cottages, divided at the lower end of the hall; the front door of the passage was blocked and a new door inserted into the hall. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of 2 and 3-light C20 casements apart from the 3 right-hand first floor windows. These are C17 ovolo-moulded wooden mullion windows, the left-hand one is 2-light, the others 4-light with central King mullion more richly moulded and timber hoodmoulds with labels. C20 plank door to right of centre. Lower section at left-hand end has plank door. Rear elevation has several features of interest. To left of centre is shallow stone projection partly for chimney stack but also incorporating hall window. To right on first floor are 2 C17 chamfered wooden mullion windows, the left-hand one 2-light, the other has 4 narrow lights with leaded panes. Rear passage door is to right of centre. Single storey outbuilding wing projects from left-hand end with chamfered wooden doorframe on inner face. 2-storey wing projects from right-hand end. Extending from it is C17 open-fronted linhay divided into 5 bays by chamfered wooden posts. It retains its original roof trusses consisting of substantial straight principals with trenched purlins and curved collars halved and dovetailed onto trusses. Good interior which has suffered little C20 modernisation. No.1 to right has ovolo- moulded axial beams in hall. The inner room has moulded axial beams with carved stops. Late C17 or early C18 bolection moulded wooden fireplace. Wooden newel stairs beside fireplace. No.2 to left has chamfered wooden doorframe with pyramid stops from passage to lower room. Lower room has chamfered cross beams. Chamfered plank and muntin screen to rear wing. On the first floor are 5 further original chamfered doorframes, one has a C17 plank door and another a C18 fielded 2 panel door. There is no access to the roofspace and the trusses are encased in plaster on the first floor. None are obviously crucks but it is still possible that early roof timbers may survive. This house survives untouched by later C20 modernisation and preserves a number of good quality carpentry features whilst others such as fireplaces and screens may still be concealed. It also remains unaltered externally with an unusual number of wooden mullion windows surviving and no additions later than the C17.

Listing NGR: SS5662206180

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