St Marys Cottage

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE EXETER ROAD 1012-1/13/72 (East side) No.6 St Mary's Cottage

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House. Late C17. Painted render over cob and limestone rubble, C20 concrete tile roof with a brick stack to the left gable end and rear wing. PLAN: 2-unit central-entry plan, off-square with a rear left wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. The C20 roof is rectangular and overhangs the gable ends. C19 small-paned 2 and 3-light casement windows, wide blank wall to the left implying and open fire at that end, lean-to porch over a central door. INTERIOR: the walls are almost 1m thick. Two C17 collar trusses with trenched purlins and tenoned collars remain in the roof space. A crossbeam at the top of the central stairs has slots below and studs above, indicating former stud walls above and below, and that the ceiling to the first floor was formerly lower. The room to ground-floor left has a stone lintel to an open fire to the rear and wide planks to plank-and-muntin panelling with chamfered muntins to the left-hand wall. The room to right has a stop-chamfered timber bressummer to an open fire with a blocked flue to the right return, the space of the stack in room above is now a cupboard.

Listing NGR: SX8563271462