Easter Cottage

HACCOMBE-WITH-COMBE COMBEINTEIGNHEAD SX 90 71

16/103 Easter Cottage

GV II

House. Probably mid C17 in origin, the left end rebuilt in the C18 or C19, C20 extension at extreme left end, on the site of former adjoining outbuilding. Whitewashed and plastered, probably cob on stone rubble footings ; thatched roof, gabled at ends, addition tiled ; axial stack with rendered shaft, front left corner stack. Plan: Probably a 2 or 3 room and through passage plan in origin, lower end to the left. The higher end is divided between a high quality heated room, stack backing on to former passage, and a second unheated room. The left-hand end of the house appears to have been rebuilt in the C18 or C19 with a rear outshut. Exterior: End on to the street. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with a C20 door to left of centre to the former passage (opposed rear door) and a further C20 doorway to the right hand room. C20 2- and 3-light timber windows with glazing bars. The rear elevation has 2 first floor windows and 2 ground floor windows. The rear entrance is into the outshut. Interior: The right-hand rooms have fine ovolo-moulded crossbeams with elaborate urn stops. The axial stack fireplace has a timber lintel and bread oven. Mortises for the former lower end partition to the passage survive in a crossbeam, the lower end room has thinly-spaced exposed crossbeams a corner fireplace and a rear right stair. Roof: Not thoroughly inspected but there are two types of roof truss, a probably late C18 or C19 type over the lower end and, at a lower level, below old thatch, a truss with a lap dovetailed collar, probably mid C17, over the heated room. One of a row of closely-spaced C17 and earlier houses in the village, end on to the street.

Listing NGR: SX9040971415