Sunnyside

SW 84 SW KEA COOMBE

2/140 Sunnyside

GV II

House and adjoining cottage, now house. Circa late C18. Rendered and painted cob on rubble footing, wooden lintels and slate sills. House has steep asbestos slate roof and cottage has corrugated asbestos originally thatched roof at lower pitch. Brick chimney over each gable end including party wall. Chimney at east end is over large external breast with quadrant oven projection. House is 2-room cross passage plan with external stair projection to rear of east room. Cottage to left is single-cell plan plus lean-to at west end. 2 storeys. South front of lean-to with window, left, 1-window cottage and symmetrical 3-window front of house, right. House has central doorway within circa early C19 wide porch with central cambered arched doorway with ledged door and flanking 16-pane fixed lights and similar windows to porch side walls. House windows are original 16-pane hornless sashes with much crown glass. Cottage has doorway to right with 4-panel top-glazed door. 4-pane horned sash to left and 16-pane sash to first floor between window and door. Cast iron ogee gutters. Later lean-to, left, has doorway with top-glazed door and 2-light casement over. Interior of house is simple but little altered with side moulding to ceiling beams; original stair with cupboard under and turned newel to landing balustrade; 2-panel doors to first floor rooms and pine muntin and plank partitions boxed in C20. Original pine roof structure with lapped and pegged collars and pegged halved apices. Cottage has thin but deep bowtell moulded beams. A very complete late C18 house with archaic features of external chimney breast and stair but with its original sashes and curious but very attractive porch.

Listing NGR: SW8376840888