Court Cottages

TORQUAY

SX8963 COCKINGTON LANE, Cockington 885-1/16/349 (North side) 20/11/52 Court Cottages

GV II

Formerly known as: Cockington Trust and Estate Office COCKINGTON LANE Cockington. House, converted to house and shop. c1700 with C20 alterations. Plastered stone rubble and cob; thatched roof with a plain ridge, half hipped at ends; 2 projecting front lateral stacks with stone shafts; right end stack. PLAN: Built into the slope of the land. Long single depth 3-room plan, the left end room probably converted from an agricultural building or cider house (cobbled floor and drain found during renovations). EXTERIOR: Picturesque. 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 5-window front (4 first floor windows); C20 stone rubble buttresses. Eaves thatch eyebrowed over right-hand window and swept down at left end. Approximately central C20 two-leaf small-pane glazed front door. Alongside to the right, a projecting lateral stack with bread oven and an adjoining projecting windowed bay. Second doorway to right of centre. Good set (6 in all) of c1700 high-transomed 2-light mullioned windows, moulded on the inner face, glazed with square leaded panes, some preserving original window furniture; other windows small 2-light casements. Left return (part of the present shop) has a large, 3-light window with square leaded panes. INTERIOR: Plain carpentry detail; some c1700 2-panel doors. Roof: A-frames with lap-jointed collars of a c1700 character, extended at both ends of the range. Part of a group of exceptionally attractive listed buildings in an unspoilt village.

Listing NGR: SX8944763853