Old Inn Cottage

INWARDLEIGH INWARDLEIGH SX 59 NE 10/153 Old Inn Cottage - GV II

Small house. Circa late C17 or early C18 or possible earlier with late C18 and C20 additions. Partly rendered cob and rubble walls. Gable ended thatch roof. 3 gable end stacks - brick to front range, projecting rendered rubble with brick shaft to rear wing. Plan: original 2-room range at front, both rooms heated. Later C18 1-room plan rear wing added behind right-hand rooms, also heated. C20 outshut built in angle between wing and main range. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 2-window front of C20 3-light casements in small openings. Former leanto porch at centre now with window. Rear wing projects slightly at right-hand end with a C20 glazed porch in the angle. Interior: fairly insubstantial rough cross beams. Rear wing has open fireplace with cambered wooden lintel. Fireplace with plain wooden lintel in right-hand room. Roof trusses not inspected but may be of interest.

Listing NGR: SX5609599370