Vine Cottage And Village Stores

THURLESTONE THURLESTONE VILLAGE SX 64 SE 4/169 Vine Cottage and Village Stores 26.1.67 G. V. II

Pair of cottages and village stores. Probably late C17 or early C18 but dateable evidence lacking and a fire in the C20 necessitated some rebuilding. Rendered rubble walls. Thatch roof hipped to left end and gabled to right. Projecting rendered rubble stack with brick shaft at left end and 2 axial brick stacks. Plan: originally 3 cottages, Vine Cottage to the left of 1-room plan, the other 2 of 2-room plan, the right-hand one probably built later than the other 2, and now occupied by the shop. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window front. Vine Cottage to the left has an early C20 4-pane sash on each floor with contemporary panelled and glazed door to the right under slate hood. The central cottage has C20 2-light casements with a C19 small-paned one at centre on 1st floor. Below it is a C20 stable-type door under a slate hood. The shop has C20 2 and 3-light small-paned casements and doorway in its right-hand end. Interior: central cottage only accessible and contained no early features.

Listing NGR: SX6761443085