The Old Thatch (Birch Cottage On Os)

YARCOMBE ST 21 SE 4/172 The Old Thatch (Birch Cottage on - OS) - II House, formerly 2 cottages. Early C19, renovated circa 1970. Plastered local stone rubble; stone rubble stack topped with C20 brick; thatch roof. Plan: the house has been made by uniting a pair of contemporary 2-room cottages. Each was a mirror plan of the other either side of a central axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. Each cottage had a larger inner heated room and small unheated end room. Circa 1970 the 2 cottages were united and new rear lobby entrance created. The front doorways were blocked and the partition between the 2 rooms of the former right cottage were united. 2 storeys with outshot on the left (east) end. Exterior: the main house has a regular 4-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars and there are low thatch eyebrows over the first floor windows. The roof is hipped each end. There is a front doorway containing a C20 door into the lean-to outshot (now the kitchen) at the left end. Rear elevation has a similar 4-window front with circa 1970 central doorway behind a contemporary gabled porch. Interior: has plain carpentry detail. The main crossbeams have narrow chamfers with runout stops. Both fireplace have been relined but both have chamfered oak lintels with runout stops. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST2524210129