Dagworthy'S Cottage, Rose Cottage And Woodbury Cottage

A group of three adjoining cottages, dating from the early 17th century with later alterations and extensions. The cottages are constructed of roughcast cob on stone footings, with thatched hipped roofing to Dagworthy’s Cottage and slate gabled-end roofs to the others. Dagworthy’s Cottage follows a two-room, central cross-passage house plan. The left-hand room has a rear external lateral stack adjacent to a rear newel stair turret, while the right-hand room has an external end stack with offsets. A rear wing, now partly occupied by Rose Cottage, is built using jointed cruck construction and matches the main range. Rose Cottage and Woodbury Cottage are extensions of this wing. Rose Cottage has an axial stack, and Woodbury Cottage an end stack, with brick shafts throughout. The front of Dagworthy’s Cottage has a roughly symmetrical three-window range with 2- and 3-light casement windows on both floors, some dating to the 19th century, and a central thatched, open porch facing the roadside. Rose Cottage and Dagworthy’s have two early 19th-century casement windows adjacent to each other on the first floor. Otherwise, 2- and 3-light 20th-century windows create an overall five-window range. There are two front doors. The rear of Dagworthy’s Cottage features a stair turret with a 17th-century four-light window, displaying chamfered mullions and surround. The interior of Dagworthy’s Cottage features two jointed crucks to the main range and one to the wing. The roof space is not accessible.