Beech Tree Cottage Wild Goose Cottage

EAST BUDLEIGH FROGMORE LANE ST 08 NE 3/67 Beech Tree Cottage and - Wild Goose Cottage - II 2 cottages, originally a single house. Late C16- early C17 origins, refurbished and enlarged in C19, thoroughly modernised circa 1965. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings, brick and stone rubble extension; brick and stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof, thatch, tile and slate to outshots. 2 adjoining 2-room plan cottages facing south. Beech Tree Cottage on the left and Wild Goose Cottage to the right. The orginal house appears to include the 2 rooms of Wild Goose Cottage and the adjoining room of Beech Tree Cottage. The original layout however is not possible to determine at present because of the extent of later alterations. The party wall may well be an original crosswall. Wild Goose Cottage has a right end stack with a winder stair rising alongside. Circa 1960 lean-to garage outshot on right end and circa 1970 service outshots to rear. Beech Tree Cottage has a probably late C19 1-room plan extension on the left end and it appears that the former end stack has been turned round to serve the new room. On the left end but set back from the front is a circa 1965 porch which returns along the back as service outshots. Main block is 2 storeys. Irregular 5-window front overall comprising C19 and mostly C20 casements with glazing bars, 3 to Beech Tree Cottage and a more or less symmetrical 2-window arrangement to Woodbine Cottage. Woodbine Cottage has a central C20 plank door and a contemporary porch with semi-conical thatch roof on plain posts. Beech Tree Cottage has a C20 glazed door at its right end with a porch identical to its neighbour. The main door however is through the porch. The late C19 extension has a ground floor C20 curving bay window with thatched roof. The main roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left after the eaves and ridge rise over the late C19 extension. Interior has been much rebuilt in the C19 or C20. The only exposed late C16 - early C17 features are in the older room of Beech Tree Cottage. The crossbeam is soffit- chamfered with one step stop (the others have been knocked off). Above the roof is carried on a plastered jointed cruck roof. The roof space shows the top of the truss to be charred. Thus it seems likely that the house was much rebuilt after a fire in the C18 or C19. In Woodbine Cottage the main heated room has a teak crossbeam introduced circa 1970 and the fireplace was reduced in size with C19 brick. The roofspace here is inaccessible but the plastered feet of A-frame trusses show.

Listing NGR: SY0739285152