Description

SS 62 SW SATTERLEIGH AND WARKLEIGH
WARKLEIGH
3/204 Church Cottage

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- II

Former church house, now private dwelling. Late Cl6/early Cl7. Rendered stone
rubble, rear unrendered. Slate roof with gable ends. Brick stack at left gable
end and rear lateral stone rubble stack with brick shaft, offsets and bread oven
projection. Plan: Single room deep, 4 rooms in line, with direct entry into each
of the larger heated rooms at erach end, and staircase to rear of the right-hand
of the 2 narrower middle rooms. Development: Subsequent C19 and C20 alterations
have heavily obscured the original plan, but the head beams of 2 plank and muntin
screens, if in situ, suggest a wide former cross-passage towards the left, upper
end with a probable parlour to left and larger hall to right heated by the rear
lateral stack. The headbeams are unrelated to present partition, the screens
presumably removed in the C18 or C19 when the house appears to have been divided
into 2 occupations, the parlour being increased and the hall reduced in length to
create 2 small middle rooms, each no wider than a passage, which presumably served
as sculleries to each of the cottages. The staircase serving the left-hand cottage
has been removed, the present staircase which breaks into 2 flights at the rear
of the right-hand middle room, having been refashioned in mid C20. 2 storeys.
4-window range. All 2-light casements 6 panes per light except for C20 ground floor
window to right of C20 gabled conservatory porch with plank inner door. C20 door
giving direct entry into left-hand room. C20 lean-to at right end. Interior:
Parlour has single chamfered cross ceiling beam, hall has 2 similar beams, all with
keel stops. fireplace to lateral hall stack concealed. Headrails to 2 plank and
muntin screens, chamfered on the outer arrises only to parlour and left-hand middle
room, that to parlour supported at the rear end on a jowled bracket or possibly
concealed post. Otherwise C19 joinery principally intact. Roof: 4 heavy trusses
with straight principals, 2 tiers of butt purlins, and formerly morticed and tenoned
collars. No evidence of smoke-blackening. Church Cottage backs onto Warkleigh
Churchyard and has been, in turn, a church house, parish poor houses (until 1837)
farm cottages and, as now, a private dwelling. P W Copeland 'Devonshire Church
Houses', Part VIII p 268.

Listing NGR: SS6421522782

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550038

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