Cooksworthy Cottage

BEAFORD SS 55 15 20/9 Cooksworthy Cottage (formerly - known as Hooksworthy Cottage)

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House. Early to mid C18 with late C19 addition and late C20 addition and minor alterations. Rendered, the C18 work said to be cob and the additions probably coursed stone rubble. Thatched roof with gable ends. Plan and development: C18 two-room plan with external end stack to north-west and small unheated room to south-east. C19 one-room addition to south-east with integral end stack and further late C20 addition beyond that. Two storeys. Exterior: Facing south-west. Three-window front, mainly 2-and 3-light C19 wooden casements, except for C18 ground-floor wooden casements to left with small panes. Blocked doorway between first and second windows from left, formerly centre of C18 cottage, replaced by late C20 circular window. Projecting bread oven with monopitch slate roof in angle to rear of left-hand end stack. C20 lean-to porch to rear. Interior: Division between ground-floor rooms removed in late C20. Open fireplace to left with plain wooden lintel. Old boarded door to rear. Wooden winder staircase in right-hand rear corner.

Listing NGR: SS5559715598