11, 12 AND 13, SOWTON LANE

SOWTON SOWTON LANE (east side) SX 99 SE 1/52 Nos. 11, 12 and 13 - 18.11.76 - II

3 dwellings, originally a single farmhouse. Early C18, with later modifications. Brick in Flemish bond, the headers burnt to give a chequerboard effect; hipped slate roof. Formerly a 3-room plan house; if there were a cross passage, its position is not known; left-hand room heated originally by a rear stack, now dismantled; the other 2 rooms share an axial stack, set to the right of centre, with brick shaft. 2 storeys. Front: regular 6-window range; 5 windows to ground floor (one a replacement of a blocked window), all with 2 lights, with cambered window arches. Entrance to left, with hipped slate-roofed open porch; a small window between floors to the left, and 2 full dormers have been added since 1962; oculus to ground floor of left- hand end. This feature, the window embrasures of the front, and the concave moulded fascia to front and left-hand end, are all original early-C18 features. The irregular fenestration to the rear is all post-1962. N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans. Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), pp.221-2; pl.21 and 22.

Listing NGR: SX9766192540