Shoebrook'S Cottage

ST 11 NW HEMYOCK 1/45 Shoebrook's Cottage - - II Detached cottage. Probably late C17 or early C18 with an extension dated 1828. Rendered; mainly random rubble with some cob; gable end slate roof. Originally a 2-room cottage, the left-hand room little more than an unheated entrance and passage, with a larger right-hand room heated by an axial (but formerly on end) stack with brick shaft. The 1828 extension is to the right of this. 2 storeys. Exterior. Front: One 3-light C19 casement window to first floor, one later casement window to main room with doorway to left. Rear with glazed extension and one 3-light casement window to first floor. Interior: open fireplace (still in use as such) with unchamfered lintel. Main room with ceiling cross beam, chamfered with scroll stops. An intact example of a late C17 smallholder's cottage, possibly originally a squatters cottage, in remote terrain on the south slopes of the Blackdown Hills. (c.f. Studleys, qv.)

Listing NGR: ST1464515398