Paradise Cottage

COMBE RALEIGH SY 10 SE

6/115 Paradise Cottage

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Cottage. 1793 (documentation seen by the owner, Miss Doidge) with alterations of 1987 at the left end. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble; thatched roof, half- hipped at left end, hipped at the right end; axial stack with a C20 brick shaft. Plan: Single depth plan, 3 rooms wide, the entrance to left of centre facing a C20 stair. Before 1987 the left end was single-storey but there was evidence that it had originally been 2-storeys, as it is now, giving a heated living-room/kitchen in the centre, an unheated service room to the right, and what may have been a reed store at the left end with no internal access. The house was built by a thatcher, Mr Webber, (information from Miss Doidge). Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front with a shallow C20 porch to left of centre. C20 2-light timber casements, C20 front door. Interior: Particularly interesting because of the firm date for the cottage, the carpentry detail works at least 100 years earlier and is evidence of the survival of traditional carpentry techniques. The heated room has a chamfered crossbeam and an open fireplace with a bread oven, chamfered lintel with a mason's mitre, the left hand jamb is also chamfered and pegged into the lintel. Roof: Not seen at time of survey (1988) but has been inspected by Michael Laithwaite.

Listing NGR: ST1573602231