West Yeo Moor Cottages

WITHERIDGE SS 71 NE 4/67 West Yeo Moor Cottages - - II Pair of cottages. Probably C18. Coursed local rubble to front wall, end gable walls in rubble and cob, rear wall in cob; hipped thatched roof, tall C19 end brick stack. Plan and development: asymmetrical plan, one principal room to each cottage with a gable end stack, 2 smaller inner rooms to centre backing onto each other. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 3 bays, 2-light C19 casements with horizontal glazing bars. 2 door openings, plank doors in simple wooden frames, that to left with C20 corrugated-iron porch. Interior: Each principal ground floor room with a gable end fireplace with a wooden bressumer, one to right with a brick-lined bread oven with a cast-iron door; left room with fireplace blocked by a C20 stove. Each cottage with a simple boxed-in staircase, with a door. Simple plank doors with iron latches to all rooms. Roof: C18 roof with collars pegged to the face of the straight principals.

Listing NGR: SS7897316475