Description

SS 90 NW BICKLEIGH CHURCH GREEN, Bickleigh
5/35 Church Cottage
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GV II
Cottage. C17 origins, C20 additions. Colourwashed and rendered, probably cob and
stone ; thatched roof, gabled at ends ; left end stack with brick shaft.
The C20 additions are flat roofed.
Plan: There is no hard evidence that the C17 building was any larger than at present
and it is unusually small : single depth with 1 heated room to the left heated from
the left end stack and a narrow unheated room to the right. The ground slopes
sharply away at the left end making it unlikely that a lower end and passage is
missing and a hip cruck at the right end (now gabled) suggests that it did not extend
further to the right. The position of the original entrance is unclear. In the late
C20 single storey extensions were added at the right end and rear right, wrapping
round the north east corner of the C17 building. There is 1 entrance to the building
on the front at the left, and a new entrance into the modern addition.
Single storey and attic. Asymmetrical 2:1 window front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed
over 2 first floor 2-light casements, 3 panes per light. 2 leaf C20 glazed door
with glazing bars at the extreme left, a 2-light casement 6 panes per light in the
middle and a C20 casement with glazing bars to the right. The single-storey flat-
roofed addition adjoining at the right end has 1 C20 casement with glazing bars.
Interior 2 roof bays only to the C17 house with a side-pegged jointed cruck truss
with a renewed nailed collar. A curved, unjointed timber at the right end is
presumably a hip cruck. C17 features also survive on the ground floor : the
hall/kitchen, ground floor left, has an open fireplace with stone rubble jambs, a
chamfered lintel with straight cut stops and a bread oven. The internal doorway into
the hall/kitchen has a chamfered cranked head. There is a partition wall between the
2 ground floor rooms and the stair, which is now reached from the modern addition,
may originally have been sited on the rear wall of the unheated room.
An unusually small, low C17 house which contributes to a group round the churchyard.

Listing NGR: SS9424607150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545573

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