Lower Upcott

COOKBURY SS 30 SE

8/35 No. 3 Lower Upcott -

• II

Cottage. Circa late C17 or early C18. Rendered cob and stone rubble walls. Corrugated iron roof over thatch, gabled to left end half hipped to right. Rendered rubble axial stack. Plan: original plan unclear as the house probably extended into the adjoining building to the left. It now consists of 2 main rooms both heated by an axial stack which divides them although the rignt-hand fireplace may be inserted. Beyond this room is a C19 staircase and a further small room which has probably been partitioned off. C18 or early C19 outshut added at rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front of circa early C19 horizontal sliding sashes on 1st floor of 12 and 8-panes. C19 fixed 18-pane window below at centre. Late inserted glazed door and side-light to left. Late C19 part-glazed porch to right. In right-hand end wall is early C19 12-pane ( 1st floor) horizontal sliding sash and similar 8-pane window below. Outshut along rear wall with C20 lean-to against its end. Interior: left-hand room has fireplace with roughly chamfered wooden lintel, right- hand room has brick jambs to fireplace and plain wooden lintel. No substantial roof timbers visible on 1st floor.

Listing NGR: SS3803304967