Sunray And Bank Cottages

Sunray and Bank Cottages are a pair of early to mid-19th century cottages, part of a row situated in Branscombe. They are built of plastered stone rubble, with stone rubble or brick stacks and slate roofs. The cottages are built across a hillslope, with the rear terraced into the slope. Each cottage follows a 2-room plan, with a central entrance hall and staircase positioned between the rooms. They have outer end stacks – a gable-end stack at the left (west) end and axial stacks within the party walls for back-to-back fireplaces. Number 4 is the left-hand cottage and Number 3, the right-hand cottage. They form part of a terrace of four similar houses, and the straight join in the chimneyshaft between numbers 3 and 2 suggests they are the earlier pair of two double cottages. The cottages are two storeys high. The fronts of both cottages are identical, with three windows arranged around a central doorway. The doorway contains an original part-glazed 6-panel door, now behind a secondary gabled, trellis-walled porch. The windows are original 20-pane sashes and have stucco flat arches with projecting keystones above. A blind window is located centrally on the first floor, with the remaining windows being original 20-pane sashes. A stucco quoin strip is present on the left-end corner. The roof is gabled at both ends, and continues over numbers 1 and 2. While the carpentry detail is covered in plaster, the interiors retain original joinery and other original detail.