Dicklegg End

COLEBROOKE COLEFORD SS 70 SE 3/66 Dicklegg End - GV II

Cottage, once 2 cottages. Early C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob or stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. 2-room plan cottage facing east away from the road. At left (south) end is a through passage with a small chamber above set between the main house and adjoining Berries Brook (q.v.) Left room has an axial stack backing onto the passage and right room has projecting end stack with secondary oven projection. 2 storeys. Irregular 4-window front of various late C19 and C20 replacement casements. The first floor right end window has a thatch eyebrow over. The right floor right end window has a thatch eyebrow over. The right room breaks forward a little from front. Each room has a door to left of window. The right room has main door with C20 porch under corrugated asbestos monopitch roof which is supported by shaped late C19 brackets for former hood. Left room door and window now behind C20 conservatory. Gable-ended roof. Interior: the right room has a C17 plain-chamfered crossbeam and a stone rubble fireplace with its oak lintel ogee-moulded with late step stop enriched with incised motifs. The smaller left room has C17 crossbeam, soffit-chamfered with scroll stops, and fireplace here is blocked. Roof is inaccessible although the base of the truss principals show over right room suggesting that original roof structure survives. Over left room purlins of large scantling carry the roof between the internal cob crosswall and left end stack. The quality of the fireplace in the right room suggests that it was not originally 2 small cottages but became so in C18. Reunited as a single house in C20.

Listing NGR: SS7717600710