Rose Cottage Trumps Cottage

SX 69 NE SPREYTON SPREYTON

1/284 Rose Cottage and Trumps Cottage

GV II

2 cottages, once part of a large house. C16 and C17, much-altered when subdivided in the late C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks with plastered brick top ; slate roof, formerly thatch. Plan and development: pair of 1-room plan cottages facing south. Rose Cottage to left (west) has a left end front corner stack and Trumps Cottage to right has a right end stack backing onto the adjoining Ashleigh Cottage (q.v). In fact these cottages have been made by the subdivision of a C16 3-room-and-through-passage plan house. Rose Cottage occupies the inner room and Trumps Cottage occupies the hall. Both cottages are 2 storeys with secondary service outshots to rear. Exterior: overall 3-window front, C20 horned 4-pane sashes at the left end, the rest are late C19 - early C20 casements with glazing bars. Central doorway sharing the same gabled late C19 porch containing a pair of round-headed outer arched, both containing C20 doors. Roof runs across the cottages between the adjoining houses. Interior: only Trumps Cottage was available for inspection at the time of this survey. Here the ground floor party wall is shown to be a C16 oak plank-and-muntin screen once at the upper end of the hall. Its muntins are chamfered with worn, probably step stops high enough to accommodate a bench below. The fireplace is C17, rubble built with soffit-chamfered and run-out stopped oak lintel and containing a C19 cloam oven. Axial beam is soffit-chamfered but the stops have worn off. Roof not accessible but the bases of straight principals show suggesting C17 or C18 A- frame trusses.

Listing NGR: SX6991396778