Description

HOLCOMBE ROGUS SOUTH STREET, Holcombe Rogus
ST 01 NE
5/130 Nos 7 and 8
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GV II
House, now 2 cottages and workshop. Late C16 - early C17, probably earlier core.
The house was divided into 2 cottages apparently in the C19, No. 7 has a C20 service
extension. Plastered walls, the rear wall is cob on stone rubble footings, the
front wall is all stone rubble; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick
(the service end chimneyshaft is plastered); No. 7's roof is asbestos slate, No. 8's
roof is corrugated iron, both were formerly thatch.
Plan and development: 2 cottages occupying a former 3-room-and-through-passage plan
house facing south-west. No. 7 occupies the right (south-east) end. It has a 2-
room plan, the former passage (now a narrow unheated room blocked each end) and the
former service end kitchen which has a gable-end stack. There is now a C20 service
extension to rear of the service end kitchen. No.8 is a 2-room workshop which was
formerly a cottage. Before that it was the hall and narrow inner room of the
original house. The former hall has a projecting rear lateral stack.
The early history of the house is difficult to determine due to the subsequent
subdivision and modernisation of the house. However it seems likely that the late
C16 - early C17 house was not an open hall house; it was floored throughout from the
beginning. Both cottages are thus 2 storeys.
Exterior: irregular 4-window front overall of C19 and C20 casements with glazing
bars, the oldest ones on No.8. The front doorway of No.7 is roughly central to the
cottage and it contains a C20 door and contemporary gabled porch. The original
passage front doorway is blocked by the window to left. No.8 also has a roughly
central doorway containing a C19 plank door. This has been inserted into the former
hall. The roof is gable-ended, stepping down a little from No. 8 to No.7.
Interior: the service end kitchen (No.7) has a stone rubble fireplace with
replacement oak lintel and the crossbeam here has deep soffit-chamfers with one
straight cut stop. In the small unheated room alongside, the former passage, the
upper (hall side) partition is an oak plank-and-muntin screen containing a blocked
doorway. In No. 8, the former hall has axial beams with deep soffit chamfers and
roll stops. At the time of the survey the hall fireplace was in accessible although
it is thought to be intact. At the upper end of the hall is another oak plank-and-
muntin screen, between the hall and the narrow unheated inner room. The whole
building has a similar and interesting roof structure. The trusses have straight
principals onto the front stone wall and side-pegged jointed crucks into the rear
cob wall. The roofspace was not inspected but it is not thought to be smoke-
blackened.
Nos. 7 and 8 South Street are part of a group of listed buildings in the attractive
village of Holcombe Rogus.

Listing NGR: ST0574318856

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26493661

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