Autumn Cottage

Autumn Cottage is a house, originally built as a pair of cottages in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is located in Dunkeswell. The construction combines plastered local stone and flint rubble, with the front plaster designed to resemble ashlar. The stacks are of stone rubble with plastered chimney shafts, and the roof is thatched. Originally, the cottages were built as mirror images of one another, each with a smaller, unheated inner room and a larger outer room, featuring projecting gable-end stacks. Both cottages originally had a central doorway, but the doorway on the right-hand side has been blocked. The two cottages were combined into a single dwelling in the 20th century. The front of the house now has four windows with glazing bars, arranged within what were originally two-window fronts centered around a doorway. The right-hand doorway is blocked, and the left-hand doorway has a 20th-century part-glazed door, set within a contemporary thatched roof porch supported by simple posts. The roof is gable-ended. The interior has been largely modernized in the 20th century, although the original layout and structure remain. The left-hand fireplace retains plastered stone rubble and a chamfered date lintel; the right-hand fireplace has been rebuilt. The roof was not inspected.