Symes Cottage With Attached Outbuildings To Rear

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST TOWNEND, Broadclyst 5/129 Symes Cottage with attached - outbuildings to rear

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House, formerly a farmhouse with attached rear barn and outbuildings. C17 and later. Rubble sandstone, rendered. Thatched roof, half-hipped to right, gabled- end to left, with external stone end stack at each end and internal lateral front stack with brick shaft. Possibly a three-room cross passage plan house now shorn of one chamber. 2 storeys. Front to road: scattered fenestration, 3 windows to ground floor, with 2 and 3- light C20 timber casements; two lst-storey windows to right hand side of house, one breaking the eaves line. 2 stone buttresses above cobbled pavement. C20 lean-to at the left-hand end of house. Internal evidence of a through passage with post and plaster screens to either side, the opposing doorways blocked. Only 2 ground-floor rooms remain, that to the right with end fireplace, massive timber lintel, chamfered and one beam, chamfered. Left-hand room, beam, chamfered with step stop. Roof of 4 bays : collar trusses of principals morticed and side-pegged at apex, and resting on wall plate; collars, side-pegged; trenched purlins. Barn extension behind house, similar roof construction, 3 trusses with double collars. Adjoining this, and aligned parallel to house another barn, now converted into a separate dwelling. All sandstone with some cob patching, and thatched throughout.

Listing NGR: SX9853897252