St Marys Cottage

STOCKLEIGH ENGLISH STOCKLEIGH ENGLISH SS 80 NW 6/226 - St Marys Cottage GV II

House, former church house. Early-mid C16 with later alterations. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks with C20 brick chimney shafts, one plastered; thatch roof. Much altered 3-room-and-through-passage plan facing east, away from road and towards churchyard. Former service room on right (north) end. End stacks to former inner and service rooms, the former projecting and now disused. 2 storeys. Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front of mostly C20 casements without glazing bars but including 2 late C17-early C18 3-light flat-faced mullion windows with central casements, both at first floor level. Centre window has C19 casement but outer lights contain small rectangular panes of leaded glass and right window is similar but outer lights contain diamond panes of leaded glass. Many of glass panes are of early thin glass. There are 2 doorways, one at right end and another right of centre. Both have late C19 porches with high steeply-pitched gabled and thatch roofs resting on rustic posts. The front wall breaks forward slightly near the centre. Roof is gable-ended to left (south) and carried over top of disused stack. It is hipped to right. Tall chimney shafts on opposing corners are C20. Rear 2- window front of C20 casements without glazing bars and at left (north) end projecting stair turret to service end. Interior: much altered. Single C16 side-pegged jointed cruck truss of large scantling over hall is smoke-blackened indicating that original hall was open to roof and heated by an open hearth. No surviving passage-hall screen and upper hall screen largely removed leaving only head beam and end posts from C16 plank-and- muntin screen. No hall fireplace. Hall floored in C17 by chamfered and step stopped beam. Small inner room has remains of large C17 stack, converted to an alcove with rear window in C20 (oak lintel now in garden). Inner room and service end reroofed in C19.

Listing NGR: SS8496906342