1 And 1A, High Street

HATHERLEIGH HIGH STREET (north side), 35 5404 Hatherleigh 11/31 Nos 1 and 1A - GV II Pair of cottages originally one house. Mid C17 heavy remodelling of C16 house with C19/20 additions. Mainly plastered, cob and rubble walls. Gable ended asbestos slate roof. Brick stack at right gable end and rear lateral stack. Plan: originally 3-room and through-passage plan, lower end to the right heated by end stack, hall has rear lateral stack. C19 and C20 rear outshuts added. In late C20 divided into 2 cottages at the lower end of the hall. Exterior: asymmetrical 5-window front, windows are in small openings. Mainly C19 and C20 2-light casements with C19 fixed 12-pane light to right of right-hand door to No. lA which is early C19 6 panelled. C20 stable-type door to No. 1 to left of centre. Interior: No. 1 has lateral fireplace with wooden lintel chamfered with convex stops. Chamfered cross beams with straight cut stops. At the higher end of the hall-moved from the lower end - is a C17 plank and muntin screen with bead mouldings to the edge of the muntins and its original door. No. 1A retains its cobbled passage and has open fireplace with rough wooden lintel and oven. Roof: 1 original roof truss survives over hall in No. 1 consisting of a pair of cruck form timbers with mortices for collar and threaded purlins. The wood is darkened but not black so it may be lightly smoke-blackened for a central hearth hall only open to the roof for a short time. C18 truss over lower end.

Listing NGR: SS5414804464