Middle Blagdon Cottage And Attached Barn To West

Middle Blagdon Cottage, dating from the early 19th century, is a house likely built for an agricultural labourer, with an attached outbuilding to the west. The structure is made of local slatestone rubble with some brick details and features a natural slate roof arranged in diminishing courses, along with stacks that have rendered shafts. The outbuilding has a corrugated-asbestos roof.

The house is designed in an L-shape, with the main block facing south. It is two rooms wide and includes a cross passage entrance, with the rooms heated by end stacks. At one time, the house was divided into two cottages, which led to the addition of a second front door. The adjoining outbuilding may have originally served as a stable.

The cottage is two storeys high, with a gabled roof at the left end and a hipped roof at the right end and at the end of the wing, featuring deep eaves. The right end stack projects from the building. The front elevation is asymmetrical, with three windows and a plank front door leading to the passage, sheltered by a porch hood on brackets. There is a secondary door to the left. The ground floor has two casement windows, while the first floor has three, all featuring segmental-arched brick voussoirs. The casements are notable for being cast-iron with small panes, with three lights on the ground floor and two lights on the first floor.

On the elevation facing the road, there is a blocked door to the right of the main block, along with one ground floor and two first-floor windows, all of which are cast-iron casements except for the ground floor window, which has been reglazed with 20th-century leaded panes. The end of the wing is blind, and the right return of the wing has two small-pane cast-iron casements, with one window on the end of the main block also reglazed with a casement featuring 20th-century leaded panes.

The outbuilding, which was formerly a barn, has a small doorway on the south side, a window alongside, and a loft loading door above. Inside the main block, the fireplaces have red sandstone jambs and lintels, and part of the ground floor is laid with attractive pink and grey local limestone flags.