Angle Cottage

Angle Cottage is a cottage with origins dating back to the 16th century, though it underwent significant rebuilding in the 17th century. The walls are plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with a stone rubble stack topped with a 19th-century brick and a contemporary Rolle Estate chimney pot. The roof is thatched.

Originally a two-room cottage, it now functions as a single room and faces west onto High Street. A stack is located in the left (northern) party wall, and a 19th-century lobby projects forward from that end. A 20th-century service outshot extends from the rear, and the cottage appears to be the result of subdividing a larger house, probably in the 18th or early 19th century. It occupies the inner room of a three-room-and-through-passage plan house; the hall, passage, and service room are now incorporated into No. 38 High Street to the south.

The cottage has two storeys and a roughly irregular two-window front, to the right of the projecting lobby. The ground floor has a 19th-century three-light casement and a 20th-century door to the left. Above the window is a 17th-century oak three-light window frame with chamfered mullions, and above the door a 20th-century single-light window. All windows contain rectangular panes of leaded glass. The lobby has a 20th-century casement with glazing bars in the side wall. The thatch runs continuously with the roof over the adjoining No. 38 High Street to the right and butts against the party wall of No. 42 High Street to the left, also covering the rear newel turret.

The ground floor was originally a single room in the 17th century. It features a mid-17th-century crossbeam with stop-chamfered edges and double bar-scroll stops. The fireplace is blocked by a 20th-century grate. The roof is two bays and carried on a side-pegged jointed cruck truss. The roofspace is inaccessible, and the first-floor ceiling plaster is old, likely dating to the 17th century, laid onto water reeds rather than wooden lathes. Evidence of 16th-century work is visible in the southern party wall with No. 38; while mostly plastered over, smoke-blackened truss principals are visible from the neighboring roofspace. This truss was likely filled in the late 16th or early 17th century when the hall fireplace (in No. 38) was inserted, as the plaster is not smoke-blackened. Angle Cottage is part of a group of attractive listed buildings near the Church of All Saints.