Description

TALATON SY 09 NE 6/168 Honeysuckle Cottage - - II

Cottages, formerly 2 cottages. C18 or early C19, modernised when the original cottages were united circa 1970. Plastered cob, maybe with no footings; cob or stone rubble stacks with chimneyshafts made of C20 concrete blocks, thatch roof. Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing south and backing onto the road. The rooms have end stacks. The present cottage has been made by uniting a pair of contemporary mirror-plan tiny 1-room plan cottages. In each originally a narrow space across the back was partitioned off for service use. 2 storeys with secondary outshots each end. Exterior: originally a symmetrical 2-window front but now there is a third ground floor window set just left of centre is blocking a former cottage doorway. The ground floor windows are C20 casements with glazing bars. The first floor windows have no glazing bars but their frames are oak and probably original (there are more similar to rear). The present front doorway is right of centre (the original right cottage doorway) and contains a C20 door behind a contemporary porch. Roof is hipped both ends and to left is carried down over the outshot there. Interior: has plain carpentry detail. There are no main ceiling beams. Both fireplaces are large, built of stone rubble with roughly-chamfered oak lintels. Both have blocked oven doorways to rear. Roof is 2 bays with central A-frame truss with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars. The original common rafters are short lengths of wavy branches, one set above the purlin and another below, but each is individually pegged. Honeysuckle Cottage is a remarkably well-preserved pair of tiny cottages.

Listing NGR: SY0608099878

External Links

• Wikidata Q26390307

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