Riders Beer

SX 79 SW 5/299

SPREYTON Riders Beer

GV II

Cottage, originally 2 cottages. Mid-late C17, modernised and enlarged as a single house circa 1970. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; cob or stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof, concrete tile to circa 1970 extension. Plan: originally two 1-room plan cottages facing south-west. The left former cottage has a gable-end stack and the right former cottage has a rear diagonal corner stack against the party wall with the left cottage. Now the 2 cottages have been knocked together to make a single house. The circa 1970 single storey extension on the right end was built on the site of a third cottage. Main house is 2 storeys. Exterior: main house has an irregular 2-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars, the first floor ones rising a short distance into the eaves. The 2 former cottage doorways, one each end of the main block, now contain C20 glazed doors and the left one is behind a C20 porch. The extension is set back from the main front and has a 3-window front of C20 casements. Main roof and extension are gable-ended. Interior of the main block has C17 carpentry detail. The left room has a roughly soffit-chamfered crossbeam, the same finish as the oak lintel of the fireplace (which is now lined with brick). The right room has a soffit-chamfered and step- stopped axial beam and the oak lintel of the fireplace has a plain soffit chamfer. The roofspace is inaccessible but the bases of straight principals show, their scantling large enough to suggest that they belong to C17 A-frame roof trusses. The proximity of these cottages to the kitchen garden walls (q.v.) of Fuidge Manor suggests that these were labourer's cottages serving the big house.

Listing NGR: SX7062194588