Datchcott

SX 39 SW ST GILES ON THE HEATH HELE

4/44 Datchcott

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Cottage. Late C17 with late C20 renovations. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, water reed thatched roof hipped at the left end, gabled at the right end with a right end stone stack with a projecting bread oven. A 2 room single depth cottage with a hall/kitchen at the right with a semi-circular projecting rear stair turret. The left-hand room is unheated. The present entrance is in the left gable end, the C17 entrance may have been on the front or the cottage may have been larger originally with a through passage entrance which no longer exists. 2 storeys. The garden elevation is asymmetrical, the right-hand concealed by a C20 corrugated iron lean-to, one 2-light C20 casement with glazing bars to the left. The entrance is through a C20 glazed porch on the left return. The rear stair turret has a 2-light window, 1-light retaining square leaded panes, a 3-light window on the left return also preserves some leaded glass. Interior The left-hand room has been subdivided in the C20, the right-hand room has a C20 grate that may conceal earlier features, the late C17 doorway to the stair turret is ovolo-moulded and stopped, the stairs have been dismantled.

Listing NGR: SX3341491583