Saddlers

A cottage, originally two cottages, dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, with a rubble stack topped with 19th-century brick and a thatched roof. It is now a two-room cottage facing south-west, situated between numbers 11 and 13 Fore Street. The original 18th-century single-room cottage is on the right (south-eastern) side, with a diagonal corner stack. An early 19th-century single-room cottage was added to the left, its fireplace incorporated into the back of the 18th-century stack. The front has an irregular two-window facade with late 19th-early 20th-century casement windows, those on the ground floor having smaller panes than those on the first floor. The right-hand room contains a plain chamfered cross beam and a diagonal corner fireplace constructed of stone rubble, featuring a chamfered oak lintel with run-out stops and a brick side oven. The left-hand room has square-sectioned crossbeams with 19th-century brick, and a fireplace. The roof reveals the former hipped end of the original cottage. The building is part of a row of thirteen cottages, forming what is believed to be the longest continuous run of thatched buildings in Devon, and potentially in England.