Thrift Cottage

STOKENHAM Torcross SX84SW Thrift Cottage 8/228 II

Cottage, formerly a pair of cottages. Probably late C17 or early C18, extended in circa C18. Painted stone rubble, partly rendered possibly over cob. Thatched roof gabled at right hand east end and hipped at left end. Large rendered right hand gable stack with slate weathering and smaller stone rubble axial stack also with slate weathering and both with yellow clay louvred pots. Plan: Situated at right angles to road. 2-room plan with a central passage or unheated room. The right hand room heated from a gable end stack, left hand room which might be an C18 extension is heated from an axial stack backing onto the central passage or unheated room. It was formerly 2 cottages but has been converted into one house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical. 3-window south front, 2 windows at the right hand end and one on the ground floor at the left end. C20 2-light casements without glazing bars. Doorway to right of centre with C20 glazed door and C20 porch. C20 windows on left hand west end. No windows at rear. Interior: Later exposed ceiling joists but no main beams. Left hand west room has cambered unchamfered fireplace lintel. Right hand room has C20 fireplace in end stack. Feet of straight principal rafters exposed in first floor rooms.

Listing NGR: SX8231742123