Description

SS 21 SE KILKHAMPTON WEST STREET, KILKHAMPTON

4/28 West Cottage
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GV II

House. Early C16 origins, largely late C16/C17. 3 builds, right end added or
rebuilt late C18/C19. Colourwashed rendered stone and cob, C18/C19 build
colourwashed brick with painted, chamfered quoins probably reused slate roof,
formerly thatched. Left gable and chimney local brick, brick chimneys to right
gable end and lateral stack on front. Evidence of open hall plan, complex
development. Present plan 3 rooms and through-passage, thick cob wall between
passage and former lower end, and lower roof line suggests 2 late C16/C17 builds.
Front facade, facing churchyard, 2 storey. 3 renewed ground floor casements and 4
first floor similar casements, each 2 light with 2 panes per light. Rear to West
Street, has 6 pane opening in C18/C19 build, 6 pane opening to left of stack, 2
pane opening to right of porch. 6 panel door to right of stack under slated pent
roof carried on C17 brackets. First floor window on West Street front is 2 light
casement, 2 panes per light. Lower end ground floor room has large fireplace with
fireplace beam, slate floor and boxed in stone stair against wall facing
churchyard. Doorcase to through passage has roll moulding on lintel, 3 plank door.
Doorcase to central room has panelled soffit. Central room has chamfered cross
beam, large fireplace with slightly chamfered granite lintel, stair against through
passage wall. Doorcase with panelled soffit into ground floor room at higher end.
Higher end room has large fireplace with fireplace beam. First floor rooms have
variety of C18 doors, 1 very large with 6 fielded panels, rehung. 3 smoke
blackened trusses above lower end ridge replaced, apex halved and pegged, trenched
purlins, 1 bay smaller than the other. No smoke blackening in lower end side of
cob wall. 2 trusses above central room, probably raised crucks, threaded ridge,
collar mortised into principals, 1 collar missing. No smoke blackening on truss,
but smoke blackening on cob wall. Trusses presumably replaced. House was 3
tenements in the C19. Quoins and the large door with fielded panels possibly
reused from Stowe, built 1679, demolished 1739. Group value with parish church.

Listing NGR: SS2522111393

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26524171

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)