Heath Cottage

CALSTOCK STATION ROAD (west side), SX 4270 Drakewalls 9/246 Heath Cottage II House. Early C19, with few later alterations. Rendered stone rubble. Hipped slate roof with crested ridge tiles and rendered stacks, one to right end and one in axial position to left. Plan: Double depth plan ; in the front range there is a large room to right, heated from a stack at the right end, and an entrance hall and smaller room to front left, heated from a stack to rear, which also serves a fireplace in the service room to rear left. To rear centre is an unheated service wing of one-room plan. Gothick style. Exterior: single storey, asymmetrical 3-window front, with one window to left and two to right; all windows are 3-light casements of early C19, with pointed arches and Gothick glazing bars. Panelled and glazed door with 4-centred arched fanlight, Gothick design bootscraper to each side. The left side has 2 similar casements, and a C20 conservatory attached to rear left. At the front and the left side, the eaves are brought down and supported on cast iron piers to form a verandah. A the right side, there is a single storey lean-to at the side of the front room, and 2 similar 3-light casements in the rear range. The single storey service wing has 2 single lights with ogee arches of early C19 and central C20 window at the right side ; door at the rear and one similar single ogee light and one paired light at the left side, with granite surrounds. To rear right, there is a lean-to behind the service room, with one similar single ogee light with granite surround. Interior: Not fully inspected. The windows at the front have panelled shutters and in the entrance hall are panelled doors with right and left. There may be other Gothick details of joinery.

Listing NGR: SX4262370955