Description

SS 90 NW BICKLEIGH BICKLEIGH
5/18 Exeland Cottage
GV II
Cottage. Probably early/mid C18 with C19 or later additions at the left and right
ends ; C20 renovations. Whitewashed rendered stone rubble ; thatched roof with a
plain ridge half-hipped at the left end, hipped at the right end ; axial stack to
left of centre heating left hand room of range ; there was formerly an axial stack to
right of centre, stack now dismantled.
Plan: Internal alterations have obscured the original plan, but it may have been a
single depth, 2 room wide arrangement with a through passage (rear door opposed to
front door) and a hall/kitchen to the right heated from the dismantled stack and a
smaller unheated service room to the left. A slightly projecting 1 room plan
addition at the left end with a separate entrance is heated from the left hand axial
stack and may originally have been an outbuilding (considerably lower floor level).
A single storey addition at the right end is reached under the lintel of the former
right hand fireplace. The left hand partition of the putative passage no longer
exists.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:2:1 window front, the left hand end slightly projecting to
the front, with an adjoining left end lean-to ; the eaves thatch swept down over the
single-storey right end addition. Front door approximately central to the original
range with a thatched porch canopy ; 2 2-light ground floor windows, 2 2-light first
floor windows all glazed with C20 diamond leaded panes.
The left hand addition has a door at the left and 1 similar casement to the right of
the door, the right end addition has 1 similar casement.
Interior: Largely modernized. The former hall/kitchen has an C18 cross beam with
runout stops and a similar fireplace lintel. The extreme left hand room has a rough
cross beam.
Roof: 1 truss over the right hand end of the range is visible wih straight principals
pegged and mortised at the apex.
Exeland Cottage is adjacent to the roadside on the hill leading north out of
Bickleigh.
Group value with the Church and the Old School House.

Listing NGR: SS9425107207

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26464128

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2