Description

SX 79 SW HITTISLEIGH FURSDON LANE

9/159 Fursdon Cottage

II

House, formerly 2 cottages and adjoining dairy. Mid-late C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob or rubble stacks with plastered brick shafts; thatched roof. Originally 2 identical 1-room cottages facing south, each with stack on right end wall. Adjoining dairy on left (west) end. 2 storeys. Overall vaguely balanced 6- window front, all circa 1970 casements. Door right of centre with C20 gabled porch. 4 half-dormers with gabled thatch over are disposed in pairs near each end. Gable-ended block. Present door in original position for right cottage. Central window to left marks position of door to left cottage. Left cottage crossbeams are chamfered with straight-out stops. Oak lintels to fireplaces have scroll stops to right, straight cut to left. Right cottage has possibly original winder stair, the lowest step of which is solid oak. 2-bay roof to each cottage on oak A-frame trusses with dovetail-lap collars and, in left cottage, truss foot is lap-jointed and pegged on to post, a late form of jointed cruck. Plain carpentry detail to former dairy.

Listing NGR: SX7202594512

External Links

• Wikidata Q26549733

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)