The Bank

The Bank is a pair of cottages located on Ottery Road in Otterton, likely dating from the 17th century, with some rearrangement and refurbishment in the late 19th century. They are built of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with some brick rebuilding. The cottages feature cob, stone rubble, and brick stacks, all topped with 19th-century brick and some Rolle Estate pots, and have thatched roofs.

These two adjoining cottages face northwest onto Ottery Road. The Bank, on the right (southwestern) end, is a two-room plan cottage with a gable-end stack in the right room and a large projecting front lateral stack. No. 30, on the left, has a three-room plan. The right room has a front corner stack, the center room features an axial stack that backs onto the left room, which has a projecting gable-end stack and appears to be a 19th-century addition. The stairs are located between the center and right rooms. Both cottages are two storeys high.

The overall front has an irregular five-window arrangement, consisting of 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars, and all doors are from the 20th century. The doorway to The Bank is immediately to the right of the projecting stack. No. 30 has two doorways: the main one is centrally located in a symmetrical two-window section of the center and right rooms, and another leads to the left room, accompanied by a fixed pane window. The roof is gable-ended. While the interiors were not available for inspection at the time of the survey, it is reported that old beams and roof timbers are present.