Heath Cottage

WINKLEIGH HIGH STREET, Winkleigh SS 6308 11/179 Heath Cottage GV II Small house. Circa mid C17 with C20 rear addition. Rendered stone and cob walls. Gable-ended slate roof. Brick stack at each gable-end. Plan: 2-room plan, formerly with central passage, larger room to left which has slight projection at the front. Both rooms heated by gable-end fireplaces. C20 rear additions. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of early - mid C20 2 and 3-light casements, the 3-light ground floor window is in a slight projection to left of centre. C20 part-glazed door to right of centre. Interior: right-hand room has fireplace with roughly chamfered wooden lintel and there is a chamfered ceiling beam with hollow step stops in the left-hand room. An original 3-light chamfered wooden mullion window survives in the rear wall of the right-hand room, enclosed by a C20 rear addition. The roof timbers were entirely replaced in the 1950's after a fire.

Listing NGR: SS6324108167