Knill Cottage

INSTOW INSTOW TOWN SS 43 SE 1/78 Knill Cottage II Cottage. C17, altered in C19. Rendered stone and some cob. Slate roof with clay ridge tiles, 2 axial stone stacks, with tapered caps and drips. 2 rooms divided by passage, that to right heated by stack backing onto passage that to left formerly a gable end stack now enclosed by attached lofted outbuilding with monopitch roof at left end. The left hand partition to the passage is of thin tongue and groove planking and may be a C19 insertion to a former direct entry 2- room plan. The left hand rear corner wall curves sharply and may have housed the original stairs, which now run up alongside the rear wall at the rear of the passage. 2 storeys. 2-window range. C20 2-light casements. 2 C20 4-light casements flank a gabled porch with segmental arch and 4 panelled inner door, the upper panels glazed. A short curving section of high stone rubble walling extends forward from the left end of the outbuilding. Interior: Some C19 joinery. Late C19/early C20 roof structure with bark-covered timbers.

Listing NGR: SS4823331050