1 And 2, High Street

ST OO NE KENTISBEARE HIGH STREET, Kentisbeare 8/103 Nos 1 and 2 - GV II Pair of cottages. Possibly C17 or early C18, considerably altered in the C19. Roughcast cob and stone; gable end slate roof with red ridge tiles. The original plan is uncertain, but it may have been a 3-room, cross passage plan house, no. 2 (to the right) containing the passage and service end (heated by an end stack), no. 1 containing the hall (heated by an axial stack backing onto the passage) and inner room (heated by a rear lateral stack). All stacks of brick, the axial stack with some old (i.e. perhaps C18) brick. 2 storeys. Exterior Front: no. 2 is set back slightly (6"); now a 4 window range, although no. 2 had a blocked window (not visible externally); all 3-light C19 casement windows. Ground floor with 2 doorways, and four 3-light casement windows; the casements of no. 2 are early C19. Left hand end with one 3-light casement window to first floor, one of 2 lights below. Small ground-floor window to right-hand end. Rear with leanto (no. 2) and 2 storey, flat-roofed extension to no. 1; all C20 casement windows. Interior: No 1, the left hand room has a rear fireplace with stone jambs and a timber lintel with shallow chamfer, no. 2 with deeply chamfered axial ceiling beam. Nos 1 and 2 face nos 3 and 4 across High Street, and form an attractive group.

Listing NGR: ST0687108167