Alder Croft

SOWTON BISHOP'S COURT LANE SX 99 SE 1/37 Alder Croft -

• II

Cottage. C17 with C19 alterations. A mixture of cob, Heavitree stone and brick, all rendered; thatched roof, half-hipped to the right, and adjoining another later cottage to the left. Formerly a 2-room cottage, the right-hand room heated by a rear internal lateral stack (rebuilt in brick in the C19 but probably replacing a C17 stack); the left-hand room heated by an axial stack, originally an end stack. The building has been extended to the left, and there is a low C20 leanto at the rear. 2 storeys. Front: 3-window range; 2-light casement windows to first floor; planked door under tiled canopy flanked by 3-light C19 casement windows with depressed window arches. A third, and smaller, casement window to the extreme right. Right-hand elevations with tall Heavitree stone plinth, otherwise all brick, with two 2-light casement windows, and a tiled leanto. Rear with 2 small 2-light casement windows to first floor, lintels at eaves level; the rest obscured by leanto with C20 casements. Interior not inspected. Dr Alcock notes a chamfered ceiling beam with scroll stop, N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans. Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), p. 213-14. Formerly known as Fawns.

Listing NGR: SX9839192367