Dartmoor Cottage

DOWLAND UPCOTT SS 50 NE 8/111 Dartmoor Cottage II House. Mid C17 with C19 addition and C20 alterations. Rendered cob walls. Thatch roof gabled to left end and hipped to right. 2 brick stacks - one axial and one at left gable-end. Plan: 3-room plan originally with baffle entry in front of axial stack which serves central and right-hand rooms. There also appears to be an original entrance in the gable end of the right-hand room. Left-hand room heated by gable-end stack. The right-hand room is no longer used as part of the domestic accommodation but for storage purposes. C19 outbuilding outshut added at right-hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front of C20 2-light casements. Slight projection to right of centre, in front of axial stack, with plank door. Late C20 gabled porch to left of centre with part-glazed door. Leanto against right-hand end under catslide roof with door at front. Rear elevation has C17 2-light chamfered wooden mullion window to left of centre on 1st floor. Interior: fireplace in left-hand room has narrow-chamfered wooden lintel. Right- hand room has open fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel and C17 chamfered wooden doorframe in end wall.

Listing NGR: SS5780109701