Little Thatch Vine Cottage (With Little Thatch, School Lane)

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST TOWN HILL, Broadclyst 9/133 Vine Cottage (with Little - Thatch, School Lane)

GV II

2 cottages. C17 with later additions. Cob, on stone plinth, rendered. Thatched roof over L-shaped plan, gabled-end to left-hand, hipped to right-hand (Town Hill front), the wing (to School Lane) gabled end to rear. The building may have been originally a 3-room, cross-passage house, the higher end to the right of doorway to Town Hill, with an inner room or parlour wing (now Little Thatch). Main front: one window to left of door, 2 to right, at ground level, all 3-light C20 timber casements. 4 C20 windows above, lintels at eaves level, the outer windows, 3-light timber casement, the 2 inner windows, set very close together and sharing the same sill, both 2-light. All casements 6 panes each. Doorway with little open porch hipped and resting on 2 fluted metal columns and approached by steps. Rear continuous outshut, flush with end gable of rear wing. School Lane elevation with one C20 window under eaves. Access by end door, under 2-light timber casement window. Curving rubble trap boundary wall at right. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX9838197272