Westaway Westaway Cottage

Westaway and Westaway Cottage is a large house now divided into house and cottage, with an 18th century core that was restyled and much enlarged in the late 19th century. The building comprises rendered brick with a stone porch of coursed ashlar, reused stone jambs to window openings, and a reused four-centred moulded arched doorway. At the rear, remains of a 17th century cob farmhouse run parallel to the main block and are joined to it by a 20th century single-storey brick extension. To the west, another right-angled extension of rubble and brick projects from the rear of the main block, completing an irregular but essentially two-storey courtyard plan with an extended east wing. Throughout, slate roofs cover the building, with the front roofs displaying 19th century crested ridge tiles, delicate patterned lead guttering over slightly coved eaves cornice, and decorated rainwater heads. Brick stacks occupy the rear, while the front features stone stacks with moulded caps and small niches or ledges on the sides holding small stone or painted figurines.

Except where otherwise noted, all façade openings consist of cavetto-moulded mullion and transom windows with octagonal and diamond leaded glazing patterns, topped with hood moulds featuring stopped ends carved with shields on the ground floor and plain above. To the right, a gable-ended projection capped with a ball finial and weather vane contains a pair of leaded two-light mullion and transom windows below. To the left, a recessed portion displays a pair of two-light windows on each floor; the range then breaks forward again with a partially exposed hipped roof to the right and gable end to the left. Single-light windows flank a two-light window (that to the right without a hood mould) over another two-light window. A projecting two-storey gable-ended porch sits to the right.

A blind foliated panel crowns a three-light window, with the initials H and B carved into each of the hood mould stops above a central sundial bearing the inscription "This Porch was erected in 1888 with Materials taken from an Ancient Manor House in the Village of Berrynarbor Part of which is in Ruins". Beneath a weathered string course are two heavily moulded shields and reused four-centred arch with grotesque heads serving as label stops. The right side of the porch features a reused square-headed window with lozenge-leaded lights above a reused quatrefoil window with lead glazing bars. The left side has a similar window at first-floor level above three small irregularly set projecting stone panels with small crocketted finials in the top panel, a foliated quatrefoil to the bottom left, and two cushed arches in a tall guilloche-patterned surround to the right, all reused elements. Inside the porch, a small panel to the right depicts a hunting scene, while the left displays a 1634 datestone with shaped stone inset below. Pairs of corbels bearing the initials D and R sit over the inner porch and H and R to each side of a carved stone panel above the entrance doorway, which has hollow-chamfered jambs and a four-centred arch. Two carved bosses rest on chamfered joists above.

A cobbled courtyard occupies the rear, containing sashes with glazing bars and two inserted sashes to the right, above a 20-panel sash in an outshut on the south side. The original south face of the farmhouse displays two-light casements with three-light casements above on each side of the connecting 20th century extension. The north side features a single-light casement to the left and a small square eaves window over a two-light casement to the right of a buttress, followed by a six-panel casement to the right of a brick stack. A three-light casement sits above a two-light casement at the east end.

Panelling in rooms to the left and right of the main porch is said to come from Heanton Court. The room to the right also contains twin oval plaster ceilings. The interior was not fully inspected.