Newhouses Including Pigsty Immediately East Of Nos 4 And 5

A row of seven cottages, originally built around the late 17th century, was later converted into three dwellings and extended in the 20th century. The cottages are situated immediately east of numbers 4 and 5 on Cott Road, Shinner’s Bridge, Dartington. The construction utilises local limestone rubble, with steeply pitched slate roofs, gabled ends, and early crested ridge tiles on numbers 4 and 5. Rendered stone gable and axial stacks are present, featuring slate weatherings and tapered tops. The original layout consisted of cottages with a single-room plan, with fireplaces on both ground and first floors, one ground floor fireplace apparently featuring a bread oven. Back doorways have been added at first-floor level, suggesting earlier direct rear access. The cottages were converted into three dwellings, probably in the 20th century, and number 5 was extended by one bay in the same period. First-floor windows are set within small slate-hung gables. Numbers 1 and 2 retain original 19th-century 2 and 3 light casement windows with glazing bars, along with plank doors and slate hanging below the central first-floor window. Number 3 has 20th-century casement windows, a 20th-century door, and an open timber porch. Numbers 4 and 5 (Orchard Cottage) also feature a mix of 19th and 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century plank door with a shallow stone porch to the left. A one-bay extension, matching the style, is present at the right end of number 5, with a small slate-hung gable and a 20th-century garage on the ground floor. Inside number 3, there are chamfered light scantling cross beams and a stone newel staircase to the side of the stack, with a cambered timber door head at the bottom of the stairs. Numbers 4 and 5 exhibit chamfered timber fireplace lintels and light scantling rough cross beams. The roofs of numbers 3, 4, and 5 have collars lapped and pegged to straight principals and trenched purlins. The roof space was not inspected. The interiors of numbers 1 and 2 were also not inspected. Behind numbers 4 and 5 is a small pigsty, constructed with stone rubble and a pyramidal slate roof; it is a small, square, single-cell building with a doorway on one side.