Church Cottage

DARTINGTON SX7862 - SX7962 ASHBURTON ROAD 12/109 Church Cottage

GV II

Said to have been the Sexton's house of the Church of St Mary (qv), now a private house. Circa 1880 by J L Pearson the architect of the church. Snecked grey limestone ashlar with sandstone dressings. Slate roofs with gabled ends. Gable end and axial stacks with sandstone ashlar shafts, the stack at the east gable end has set-offs and dismantled shafts. Plan: Overall L-shaped plan. The front right hand projecting wing which contains the entrance and stairhall to the left and front room to the right. Behind the front room a kitchen/living room with the scullery and back porch in a short wing to the rear left with an integral single storey outhouse wing extending further left containing the wash-house coal house and privy with a low walled enclosure at its gable end. Victorian Gothic style. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical gabled elevations. West front has a projecting gabled wing to right with 3-light stone mullion window on each floor to right and doorway to left with a 2-centred chamfered stone arch with a hoodmould and plank door, now enclosed within a C20 glazed gabled porch. The left hand return to north has 2 staggered gables, the right hand gable has a stone cross-mullion transom stair window and the left hand gable has a 3-light stone mullion window. The right hand (south) return is gabled to the right with a 4-light stone mullion window on the ground and first floors and a blind wall to the left. Rear (east elevations has large projecting gable end stack with set-offs and truncated porch doorway to right. Contemporary integral single storey outhouse wing to right (north). Most of the windows now have plate glass replacing the original leaded panes. Interior: staircase with stick balusters, roll-moulded handrail and newels with ball finials. Plank doors.

Listing NGR: SX7851662677