Description

EAST BUDLEIGH HIGH STREET (east side) East
SY 0684
Budleigh
8/106 No. 42
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GV II
Cottage and former barn. C18, house refurbished in C19, whole modernised circa 1980
when the barn was brought into domestic use. Plastered cob on stone rubble
footings, one end is timber-framed; stone rubble or brick stacks topped with late
C19 brick; thatch roof.
Long building facing west onto the High Street. The original house is at the left
(northern) end and has a 2-room with central staircase plan. The right room has a
rear lateral stack and the left room has an end stack in the party wall there. The
building continues to right as a former barn with a carriageway through the right
end. House is 2 storeys. The former barn is still open to the roof.
The house section has a symmetrical 3-window front of C19 casements with glazing
bars and central part-glazed door is probably contemporary. To right there is a
fourth window to the former barn; a similar casement to the ground floor and blind
recess at first floor level. The right end has large double plank doors to the
carriageway and above it is a full height window of circa 1980 with plain timber
mullions. The roof is continuous across the whole building. To left it butts the
party wall of 44 High Street and to right it is gable-ended rising above the
adjoining Angle Cottage (q.v.). The gable here is weather boarded.
Interior of house shows no carpentry detail and only C19 and C20 joinery detail.
The roof of the former barn however is exposed and is carried on a series of C18 A-
frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.
42 High Street is one of a group of attractive and varied buildings, most of them
listed, in the vicinity of Church of All Saints (q.v).

Listing NGR: SY0665184917

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500018

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)