Spring Cottage

Spring Cottage is a house, originally two cottages, dating to the mid-17th century. It’s located in Morchard Bishop, on Polson Hill. The walls are plastered cob built on rubble footings, with stacks of rubble and brick – the stacks being topped with 19th-century brick. The roof is thatched and hipped at both ends. The building originally comprised a two-room house on the left side and a single-room cottage on the right end. There is a stack at the left end and another axial stack between the centre and right rooms. The two storeys have a regular but asymmetrical five-window front, with 20th-century casement windows containing glazing bars. Three windows on the right side are symmetrical. A glazed door and a second 20th-century door are at the left end. Inside, the outer rooms feature stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The room on the right contains a blocked large fireplace, while the fireplace in the left room was rebuilt in 19th-century brick, complete with a side oven. The narrow central room is said to have a blocked fireplace that backs onto the fireplace in the left room. The roof was not inspected.