Numbers 1 (Laburnum Cottage), 2 And 3 Pikes Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Numbers 1 (Laburnum Cottage), 2 And 3 Pikes Cottages
- WRENN ID
- worn-entrance-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1 (Laburnum Cottage), 2, and 3 Pikes Cottages are a group of three cottages, likely originating as a 17th-century house that was subsequently subdivided and extended in the 18th century and modernized in the late 19th century. The walls are of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with stacks of stone rubble or brick, topped with late 19th-century brick, and a thatched roof. Brick outshots with slate roofs are present to the rear.
The cottages face south-south-west. Number 1 (Laburnum Cottage) has a three-room plan; the westernmost room may be a 19th-century addition. Number 2 is a single-room plan cottage, and Number 3 has a two-room plan. There is an axial stack between the central and left-hand rooms of Number 1, and another in the party wall between Numbers 1 and 2, serving back-to-back fireplaces. Number 2's left room has a rear lateral stack, and the right room has an end stack. All three cottages have 19th-century rear outshots. The main block is two storeys high.
The front has an irregular six-window arrangement. Number 1 has a symmetrical two-window arrangement on either side of the front door, with a third window on the left end. The ground floor windows are late 19th-century casements with glazing bars, and the first floor has late 19th-century horizontal sliding sash windows. Number 2 has a late 19th-century horizontal sliding sash with glazing bars on each floor and a late 19th-early 20th-century plank door behind a 20th-century monopitch, slate-roofed porch. Number 3 has ground floor casements and first-floor horizontal sliding sashes, and a 20th-century front door. The roof is continuous and gable-ended.
The interior of Number 1 was not inspected. Numbers 2 and 3 show mainly 19th- and 20th-century modernization. In Number 3, the beams are boxed in, and both houses have fireplaces blocked by 20th-century grates. However, Number 2 retains evidence of 17th-century work, including a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops, and the bases of the principal rafters, which suggest a 17th-century roof. The survival of these features in Number 2 suggests that some early work may survive in the other cottages.
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