Manor Cottage

SX 86 NE COFFINSWELL COFFINSWELL 3/93 Manor Cottage (formerly listed as - cottage next but are west of Manor Farm) GV II Cottage, possibly farmhouse. C17, with probably C18 wing. Rendered cob walls with thatched roof hipped at right end and half hipped to front of wing. Rendered rubble projecting gable stack to left end, rendered brick gable stack to right end. Originally a 2 room plan with larger left-hand room heated by gable stack and right- hand room unheated. Small wing added probably in C18 at front of left-hand room, at present contains stairs. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1 window front with wing projecting from left-hand side. Circa late C19 3-light casements with glazing bars. C20 plank door on inner face of wing under slate lean-to porch roof supported at front on timber posts. Late C19 2- light casement above. 2 window facade at rear, ground floor right-hand one is late C20 casement without glazing bars, the others are similar to those at the front. Interior contains one unchamfered cross beam in left-hand room. Wooden fireplace lintel is exposed but fireplace blocked beneath it. Rough axial beam in right-hand room. There is no access to the roof space and no sign of the trusses on the first floor. This cottage presents an attractive traditional facade to the main street of Coffinswell.

Listing NGR: SX8878468686