Lock's Cottage Winston Cottage

Winston Cottage and Lock's Cottage are a house and adjoining cottage located on the north side of East Street in North Molton. The house dates from the early to mid 17th century, while the cottage is likely from the 18th century. The house was divided, probably in the mid to late 19th century. It features rendered cob over a high stone-rubble plinth, with some stonework that is roughly squared and coursed. The 18th-century addition has a stone-rubble ground floor and a rendered cob first floor, topped with a thatched roof that is half-hipped to the right. There are red-brick stacks.

The original 17th-century layout consists of a two-room baffle-entry plan facing south, with two principal rooms flanking a central stack and a small unheated room to the right, which may have been added in the 18th or 19th century, or possibly even the 20th century, as indicated by the 20th-century joists found inside. The entrance lobby is located in front of the stack, featuring a shallow full-height rectangular projection. To the left, there is probably an early to mid 18th-century one-room plan cottage with an integral end stack. An old staircase is situated in the right-hand room.

The exterior displays roughly symmetrical fenestration, with five windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor. These are likely 19th-century two-light small-paned wooden casements with wooden lintels. The first-floor windows have two-light glazed gablets above. There are two 20th-century boarded doors at the central break, with a 19th-century pent-roofed porch approached by stone steps. A 20th-century stable-type door is located to the left of the window in the cottage.

Internally, only the right-hand cottage was inspected. Its principal room features a 17th-century cambered deep-chamfered cross beam with convex run-out stops, and there is a 17th-century oak winder staircase in the right-hand rear corner of this room. The right-hand end room has 20th-century joists. Above the principal room, the bedroom contains an old boarded cupboard door with H-L hinges. The ground-floor room of the left-hand cottage has longitudinally-spanning joists and an old stone fireplace. The roof space was not inspected. Winston Cottage was formerly known as No. 1, Lock's Cottage.