No 24 (Causeway Cottage) Including Garden Railings, Gate-Piers And Gate

SX 9073-9173 BISHOPSTEIGNTON FORE STREET (north side), Bishopsteignton 13/45 No 24 (Causeway Cottage) including garden railings, gate-piers and gate

GV II

House. Probably late C17/early C18 origins, refurbished in the C18, bay windows probably mid C19. Colourwashed stuccoed stone ; red tiled roof with sprocketted eaves, gabled at ends ; truncated projecting left end stack, right end stack with a tall brick shaft, left end stack to rear left service block. Plan: L plan ; a single depth main block to the front with 2 principal rooms, one on either side of an entrance passage from which an axial stair rises to the rear ; rear left service block, forming an overall L plan. To the rear right the house adjoins Higher Green (q.v.). Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a central C20 part-glazed front door with a rectangular fanlight ; canted bay windows to left and right, roofed with wooden shingles with C19 12-pane sashes to the centre lights and 8-pane sashes to the outer lights. 3 C19 16-pane sashes to the first floor. Interior: C18 and C19 features, the front right room has a white marble chimneypiece, shutters and a segmental arched recess on the rear wall ; the left hand room has an open fireplace with a high timber lintel and the remains of bread ovens. Joinery includes a stick baluster stair with a ramped handrail and C18 2-panel doors to the first floor. Roof: Pegged collar rafter roof trusses below later timbers, the collars lapped and notched into the principal rafters. The house is slightly set back from the street and low stone rubble garden walls with iron railings with spear finials are included in the listing, also a garden gate flanked by iron gate piers. Documentation relating to the house is said to date from the 1730s (information from owner). An interesting evolved house in the village centre.

Listing NGR: SX9098773793