Molland Botreaux Post Office Sunnymead Cottage

MOLLAND SS 8028-8128 20/82 Molland Botreaux Post Office and - Sunnymead Cottage II House, latterly 3 cottages, now 2 cottages including post office. Early C17 with late C17 or early C18 addition, minor late C18 addition and some late C20 alterations. Coursed stone rubble to ground floor and rendered cob to first floor ; completely rendered end walls. Welsh-slate roof, gable-ended to right and hipped to left (formerly thatched). Squared and coursed stone rubble stacks with weatherings and caps, one cement rendered. Plan and development: C17 three-room plan to left; consisting of larger principal room (probably former kitchen) to right with external lateral stack to rear, and opposed entrances (probably to former through passage) in front and back walls at left-hand end of right-hand room and former parlour to left with axial stack at right-hand end, and small unheated inner room between the two with passage in front. Winder staircase in right-hand rear corner of right-hand room. One-room plan addition (probably late C17) to right (see straight joint to front) with external end stack to right and former gable-end entrance, possibly added when the house was divided into 3 cottages, and further entrance added to the left-hand room. Probably late C19 or C20 lean-to addition at right-hand gable end of cottage. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical 4-window front; late C19 2-and 3-light wooden casements. Small late C20 one-light casement inserted between first and second first-floor windows from left. C19 boarded doors between first and second and second and third windows from left, both with C20 lean-to concrete porches. Boarded door in-lean-to outshut to right with late C20 gabled concrete-block porch. Interior: Right-hand ground-floor room of early C17 part with cased spine beam and half beams; later lateral dividing wall. Old winder staircase in rear corner; cupboard under stairs has boarded door with H-L hinges. Left-hand room has chamfered cross beam and beams along walls with scroll stops; blocked fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. Central unheated room also with chamfered cross beam. C17 roof consisting of 4 trusses with mortice and tenoned apices, diagonally-set ridge-piece, and a single purlin each side. Ground-floor room of cottage adjoining to right has roughly chamfered spine beam, open fireplace with plain wooden lintel, and old boarded side door, back door and cupboard door, the last two with H-L hinges. C17 A- frame roof trusses.

Listing NGR: SS8061628295