Colston Cottage

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX76SE COLSTON ROAD 1011-1/4/9 (West side) 06/01/83 Colston Cottage

GV II

House, formerly farmhouse. Probably C16 or earlier in origin with later alterations including probable truncation at right end and c1920s renovation and rear additions. Roughcast local stone rubble; thatched roof, hipped at left end and gabled at right end; left end and rear lateral stacks. Plan: the main block, end on to the road, is a 2-room plan with a narrow unheated room at the right end, which has a thinner external wall than the rest of the house. This room, which preserves an external door at the front, may have been a former cross passage, suggesting that the lower end may have been removed. In c1920s the house was extended to the rear, the re-roofing is probably also early C20. Front left wing at right-angles to the main block was probably a former service room (includes a well), now converted to a kitchen. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front with C20 gabled porches to left and right. 3-light casement windows of c1700 with C19 leaded panes in geometrical patterns, similar window on right return with C19 stained glass. The front left wing is single storey with a hipped roof. INTERIOR: centre room has chamfered crossbeams, one supported on a moulded corbel at rear. Fireplace with stone rubble jambs and high granite lintel with pyramid stops. C19 or C20 stair rises from within centre room, left hand (inner) room, probably the parlour, has a C20 fireplace and winder stair to rear with probable C17 two-light mullioned stair window. Common rafter C20 roof construction.

Listing NGR: SX7514864683