Description

HACCOMBE-WITH-COMBE LOWER NETHERTON
SX 89 71

15/118 Orchard Cottage including garden
- walls and garden gate

GV II

Farm cottage. 1933 (datestone), designed by William Curtis Green, who designed
Tuckett's Farmhouse close by, for P.D. Tuckett. Brick and stone, the brick roughcast
with slate-hung gables ; slate roof, gabled on all 4 sides ; axial stack with wide,
low, stone shaft. Vernacular Revival style.
Plan: Rectangular 2 room plan cottage with an outshut on the west side and a front
door into the main block in the angle with the outshut.
Exterior: 1½ storeys. Asymmetrical 1:3 window entrance elevation (west), one window
to the outshut which projects to the front at the left end with a catslide roof and
deep stone footings below the roughcast. A flight of stone steps, parallel to the
main block and flush with the front wall of the outshut, leads up to a nicely-
detailed oak front door with a granite date plaque above inscribed PDT 1933 ; 2-light
ribbon window above plaque. To the right of the front door one 1-light and one 2-
light casement window with glazing bars. At the top of the steps a short section of
elegant iron railing incorporates a boot-scraper. The rear (east) elevation has a
recessed porch with 3 oak doors, a 2-light small pane casement to the right, a 1-
light window to the left and a 4-light small pane first floor casement. The north
elevation has one 4-light first floor 4-pane casement and a pair of similar 2-light
ground floor casements ; the south elevation has 1 ground floor and 1 first floor 4-
light small pane casements. Stone rubble garden walls to the north and south of the
west elevation are included in the listing ; at the north end the wall has a rounded
pier and ramps up to abut the outshut ; to the south the wall includes a good 1930s
timber gate with a simple curved brace and good hinge and latch.
Interior: Not inspected but said to have stone floors and may include other
contemporary features.
A good example of a high quality Vernacular Revival farm cottage, remarkably intact.

Listing NGR: SX8923871636

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461595

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)