Millmoor Cottage

CULMSTOCK MILLMOOR, Culmstock ST 11 SW 10/59 Millmoor Cottage - GV II Cottage. Mid C17, modernised circa 1970. Plastered stone rubble with some cobs stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; corrugated iron roof over the thatch. Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing south-west. The larger left (north-west) room was the kitchen, and has a projecting end stack. It contains the front door and C20 stair which might originally have been contained in a central through-passage. The right room, the parlour, has an end stack. The present kitchen is in the secondary outshot across the back. Cottage is 2 storeys. Exterior: balanced but not symmetrical 2-window front of C20 casements without glazing bars. The front doorway is left of centre and contains a C20 door behind a contemporary gabled porch. Roof is tall and steeply-pitched. It is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. Interior: the right room, the parlour, has a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with step stops. The left room has one C17 crossbeam with broad soffit-chamfers and a C20 replacement, the latter maybe along the line of the former passage screen. Both fireplaces are blocked by C20 grates but alongside the kitchen fireplace the oven housing intrudes into the room. The roof was not inspected although the bases of straight principals show on the first floor, their scantling large enough to suggest that they belong to C17 A-frame trusses.

Listing NGR: ST1016313962