Winterstoke Cottage

SS 90 NW BICKLEIGH CHURCH GREEN, Bickleigh 5/33 Winterstoke Cottage - GV II Cottage. Circa late C18/early C19 with C20 renovations. Whitewashed and rendered except for the left end wall which is volcanic trap rubble; thatched roof, with a plain ridge gabled at left end, adjoining Church Green Cottage (q.v.) at right end ; axial stack with brick shaft. Plan: The present plan is single depth, 2 rooms wide with a larger heated room to the left, an entrance to right of centre into a stair hall and a smaller, unheated room to the right. Single storey slate-roofed lean-to adjoining at rear left is probably a later addition. It is not clear whether this corresponds to the original plan. There was a second doorway on the front at the right which has been replaced with a window. The rear of the house backs on to the churchyard where the ground is level with the thatch eaves. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front with a C20 front door to right of centre under a gabled porch canopy. 2 ground floor windows to the left of the door have segmental brick arches and are glazed with 2-light casements, 3 panes per light; similar window to right of door with a square head in the position of a former doorway. 2 similar first floor windows. The left return has a first floor blocked window with a brick arch. Interior not inspected but thoroughly modernised. One of an attractive group of thatched cottages around the churchyard.

Listing NGR: SS9420407157