Pidgeon Cottage

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST COLUMBJOHN

5/85 Pidgeon Cottage - - II

House. C16 base, with C19 alterations. Coursed rubble volcanic trap base, brick upper storeys, under fish-scale tiled roof-with composite gable end and half hip. Reputedly built on the foundations of the dovecote to the (now demolished) Acland mansion of Columbjohn. Square in plan with small rubble-stone outbuilding attached to front at left. C20 brick lean-to extension; 2 storeys and attic. The stone base rises to about 2 metres, now living quarters with C20 2-light windows inserted. Above a brick storey in Flemish bond served by a flight of external stone stairs; 2- light C19 timber casement windows with transom, the upper lights each under depressed stone arch, 2 to front, 1 to right-hand side. No windows to rear. Above this, a tiled roof, hipped it eaves level on brackets, but changing pitch to give an attic storey with gabled ends, the gable walls half-timbered with brick nogging, and a small attic window to each end. 3 attached brick chimneys shafts with stone moulded cap, rise off ashlar base below the ridge.

Listing NGR: SX9598899951