Peep O' Day And Rock Cottage

THURLESTONE WEST BUCKLAND SX 64 SE 4/177 Peep O' Day and Rock Cottage 26.1.67 G. V. II

Pair of houses. Circa early C17 with C18, C19 and C20 additions. Rendered stone rubble walls. Hipped thatch roof, gabled slate roof to front addition. 2 brick axial stacks and one small rubble axial stack. Plan: originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan with lower end to the right. Lower room has fireplace on end wall and newel stairs behind. In front of it is an C18 wing with C19 extension in front of it. Above the lower room the house appears to have undergone a heavy remodelling circa early C20, the passage has become a stairhall and the hall has a fireplace at its higher end. An early C20 room was added at the end of the lower room. Presently divided into 2 houses at the lower end of the passage. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front with wing projecting from right-hand end in 2 stages, the end part with a slate roof. Circa early C20 2 and 4-light casements on lst floor. On the ground floor are 2 early C19 tripartite 20-.pane sash windows with French windows to their left. To the right the thatch extends in a catslide to form an open porch over a C20 glazed door. The wing has a C20 porch on its inner face and a C20 plank door at its gable end. Interior: Rock Cottage, former lower room, has roughly chamfered ceiling beams, an open fireplace with a plain slate lintel and stone newel stairs behind. Peep 0' Day has some unusual reused pieces of carved timber on its stairhall including one over the door depicting the face of a woman - these are reputed to have come from a ship.

Listing NGR: SX6755943584