Ladybird Cottage

SS 61 NE 3/172

KINGS NYMPTON THE SQUARE, KINGS NYMPTON Ladybird Cottage

GV II

Cottage. Probably late C18. Painted roughcast rendered stone rubble to first floor, cob above. Thatch roof, hipped at left end with rendered cob stack, half-hipped at right end. Rendered brick stack to rear right-hand room. Plan: Former 2-room and central passage plan, much altered in C20 when the front doorway was blocked and entry made at right end, left-hand passage partition removed and staircase replaced. The right-hand room was probably originally unheated, the brick stack added apparently in late C19 or early C20, when a small kitchen outshut was built at the rear, the stack heating both room and outshut. Exterior: 2 storeys. Entrance at right end has single 2-light casement 6 panes per light on each floor to right of C20 stone porch with gabled roof. Single 12-paned sash above C20 window to left of former front entrance. Interior: entirely altered in C20. Fireplace to left-hand room has rough chamfered timber lintel with diagonal stops. Feet of rough roof principals suggest late C18 roof structure intact.

Listing NGR: SS6832019379