Love Cottage and Witch Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1989. A C16 House. 2 related planning applications.

Love Cottage and Witch Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
solitary-pediment-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1989
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Two adjoining houses, initially a single dwelling, likely dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. The walls are rendered cob on stone footings, topped by a corrugated asbestos roof, which was formerly thatched. Gables are present at each end, with a stack on the left side and an axial stack featuring rendered shafts.

The original layout comprised three rooms and a cross passage, with the lower end to the left, designated as Love Cottage. A hall stack faced onto the passage, and there was an unheated inner room. The passage has since been converted into a service room, and new entrances have been added.

The front facade is asymmetrical, presenting a three-window to four-window arrangement. Love Cottage features a porch with an artificial thatched roof to the left of centre, along with three first floor and two ground floor windows—small-paned, two-light casements from the 19th century. Witch Farm Cottage has a 20th-century gabled porch to its left of centre, and four first floor and two ground floor windows of a similar two-light, small-paned, 19th-century design.

The hall within Witch Farm Cottage exhibits an open fireplace with chamfered Beerstone jambs and a chamfered lintel. A staircase rises adjacent to the stack, alongside intersecting moulded ceiling beams. The right-hand or inner room features a chamfered crossbeam with scroll-stopped ends. Love Cottage has an open fireplace in its lower end room, complete with a chamfered timber lintel, a bread oven, and a scroll-stopped ceiling beam.

The roof of Witch Farm Cottage is constructed using a jointed cruck system, likely extending across what was formerly Pleasant View.

This is a traditional house retaining original interior features.

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