Chenton Cottage Lammacott Cottage

DOWN ST MARY SS 70 SW 2/179 Cheriton Cottage and Lammacott Cottage II

2 cottages, made by dividing a former farmhouse. C16 or Cl7, thoroughly refurbished in the late C18 - early C19, probably when divided. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks with plastered chimney shafts; thatch roof. Plan and development: pair of cottages facing south-south-east, say south. Cheriton Cottage is the right (west) one. It has a 2-room plan; a small unheated room at the end and larger room with projecting rear lateral stack. Lammacott Cottage to right (east) is a 1-room plan with an end stack. Although much altered it seems that the original farmhouse was C16 or C17 and had a 3-room and through-passage plan. Cheriton Cottage occupies the former inner room and hall. Lammacott Cottage occupies the site of the passage and the lowerend room. However no carpentry detail earlier than the late C18 - early C19 is exposed. 2 storeys with late C18 - early C19 agricultural extension on the left end (now in domestic use) and secondary out- shuts across the rear. Exterior: irregular overall 5-window front of similar late C19 - early C20 casements with glazing bars, all with slightly curious timber plank hoodmoulds. The former passage front doorway is right of centre and used by Lammacott Cottage. It contains a C19 plank door and contemporary hood. Cheriton Cottage front doorway is towards the left end and contains a C20 door and contemporary thatch-roofed porch. The main roof is half-hipped to right and gable- ended to left. The outbuilding adjoining to left has a C20 thatch-roofed porch in front and its roof is hipped. Interior: contains plain carpentry detail where exposed including a roof structure carried on A-frame trusses with spiked lap- jointed collars.

Listing NGR: SS7458603335