Thatched Cottage

Thatched Cottage is a cottage located on Bell Street in Otterton, likely built in the late 18th to early 19th century and refurbished around 1975. It is constructed from plastered cob and stone rubble, with stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and features a thatched roof with pantiles on the outshot. The cottage has a two-room plan and faces north, with a through passage located to the right of the center, leading to stairs that rise to the rear of the smaller western room. It has end stacks and an outshot on the left end, along with a kitchen extension added around 1975 at the rear. The cottage is two stories tall and has a somewhat asymmetrical two-window front, featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars and a small third window on the ground floor to the left. The front door, which is also from the 20th century, is topped with a hipped thatch hood. To the right of the doorway, there is a window flanked by vertical strips of local conglomerate sandstone, suggesting that the window may have blocked a former doorway. The roof is hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left. The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey.