Coombe Cottages

BIGBURY - SX 64 NE 5/4 Nos 1 and 2, Coombe Cottages

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Shown on OS map as Boarshill. Former farmhouse, now 2 cottages. Probably C18 or earlier. Rendered cob or rubble, exposed rubble at back, corrugated asbestos-cement roof. In two sections, smaller left half having slightly shallower roof pitch, back has a lower gabled wing. Two storeys, irregular fenestration. No 1 has a small 2-light casement far left, then a second similar, beneath 2-light at eaves. Then a wide blank section of wall, to wide plank door under small slated hood beneath 2-light with glazing bars. No 2 has, at ground floor, a small C19 2-light without bars and a C20 casement flanking C20 gabled porch on wood posts to a panelled door. At first floor a 2-light with glazing bars, and a C20 casement; the right hand pay probably an added section, under hipped roof. Large ridge stack at point of change of roof pitch, left, and right, at former right gable. The back has gabled wing at right end, various 2-light casements, stair window near left end.

Listing NGR: SX6762348706