Chamberlain'S Cottage

BRAMPFORD SPEKE SX 99 NW 3/6 Chamberlain's Cottage 18.11.76 GV II House, now divided into flats. C17 with later additions. Cob on stone plinth, with thatched gabled-end roof. Originally a 3-room, cross passage plan, with a lateral back-stack and a rear wing, and a later left-hand extension, lower set back, with its own brick end-stack. 2 storeys throughout. The front door is placed left of centre with C20 open-framed and thatched roof, with, at ground-floor level, 1 window on the left, 2 to the right. 4 1st-floor windows, 1 with a C18 3- light casement with wooden mullions and leaded panes, all set high under eyebrow eaves. The left-hand extension contains a ground floor, 10-pane casement window. Interior (not fully inspected): right-hand ground-floor room contains fireplace with Thorverton stone jambs and an unchamfered wooden lintel, and a fragment of a stud and cob partition to right of cross passage. The building forms an attractive group with Church View Cottage at the end of the lane to the parish church.

Listing NGR: SX9265398208