Barberry Cottage

DITTISHAM SX85SW 10/248 No 2 (Barberry Cottage)

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House. Circa mid C17 altered and extended at rear in late C20. Whitewashed slate rubble. Asbestos slate roof with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. Projecting and truncated gable end stack and rendered rear lateral stack. Plan and Development: 2-room and through passage plan, the hall to the left heated from a lateral stack at the back and the smaller parlour on the right with a gable end stack. A partition has been inserted into the parlour to form a bathroom at the back and there is now a winder staircase in the rear right hand corner of the hall. In the late C20 a single storey outshut was built behind the hall and passage. No 2 Barberry Cottages, adjoining to left though not included appears to be a later extension or alternatively a remodelling of the putative lower end of what would have been a 3-room plan house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 3-window front. C19 3-light casements with glazing bars and timber lintels and C19 4-light casement on ground floor left. Doorway to right of centre with a C20 divided plank door and C20 gabled canopy. No 1 to left has a 2-window front but is not included. At the rear to right a late C20 single storey outshut behind No 2. Interior: The right hand room (parlour) has a gable end fireplace with ovolo-moulded timber lintel with convex stops, now partly blocked, and a chamfered cross-beam with straight cut straps. Hall to left has lateral fireplace at the back with a chamfered timber lintel, its stops possibly buried and a brick-lined oven. The hall has a chamfered cross-beam without stops. The first floor land roof space were not inspected but the roof was described as having straight principal rafters.

Listing NGR: SX8439054791