St Marys Cottage

St Mary's Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, located on Exeter Road in Newton Abbot. The building features painted render over cob and limestone rubble, topped with a 20th-century concrete tile roof that has a brick stack on the left gable end and a rear wing. The cottage has a two-unit central-entry plan that is slightly off-square, with a rear left wing.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a two-window range. The rectangular roof overhangs the gable ends, and there are 19th-century small-paned casement windows with two and three lights. A wide blank wall on the left suggests an open fire was located there, and there is a lean-to porch covering a central door.

Inside, the walls are nearly one meter thick. The roof space contains two 17th-century collar trusses with trenched purlins and tenoned collars. A crossbeam at the top of the central stairs has slots below and studs above, indicating former stud walls and a previously lower ceiling on the first floor. The ground-floor room on the left features a stone lintel above an open fire at the rear and wide planks with plank-and-muntin panelling, including chamfered muntins on the left-hand wall. The room on the right has a stop-chamfered timber bressummer over an open fire, with a blocked flue on the right return; the space of the stack above has been converted into a cupboard.