Description

COLEBRXKE COPPLESIUNE
SS 70 SE
3/135
- Nos. 1-4 (inc) Furzedown Cottages

- II

4 cottages, formerly farmhouse and barn. Probably C17 core, converted to cottages
in C19. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and
C20 brick, some are plastered; thatch roof.
Row of four 2-roan plan cottages facing south-west. No. 1 is the left (north-
western) end cottage and No. 4 is the right (south-eastern) end cottage. Each
cottage has a slightly different layout. Left end stack and axial stacks in party
walls between cottages except at right end (No. 4) which has a rear lateral stack.
All have circa 1960 service outshots to rear. 2 storeys.
No. 1 has 2-window front with C20 casements without glazing bars to ground floor
arid single first floor late C19 casement with glazing bars. Central C20 door and
gabled and shingle-roofed porch. No. 2 has nearly symmetrical 3-window front of
casements with glazing bars, C20 on ground floor, C19 on first including some panes
of leaded glass. Central C20 door with gabled and shingle-roofed porch. Nos. 3
and 4 both have irregular 2-window fronts of C20 casements without glazing bars,
and C20 doors. No. 4 has a gabled and shingle roofed porch. Continuous roof is
gable ended to left and hipped to right. Buttress projects between Nos. 3 and 4
and rear of No. 2 shows projecting short midstrey walls from former barns.
Interiors: show mostly late C19 and C20 detail. The former farmhouse is supposed
to have been at right end but no carpentry detail is now exposed in Nos. 3 or 4.
The row looks particularly attractive in the middle distance from the main Exeter-
North Devon road through Copplestone Village.

Listing NGR: SS7681102419

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26535293

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