Pump Cottage

GERMANSWEEK GERMANSWEEK SX 49 SW

6/91 Pump Cottage

GV II

Small house. Mid-late C17 with C19 additions and late C20 alteration. Rendered cob walls on rubble base. Corrugated asbestos roof gabled to right end and hipped at left end. 2 rubble stacks, one axial originally at the left gable end, the other projects from the right gable end with an oven beside it and is rendered. Plan: 2 room plan originally, each room heated by gable end stack. Present entry is into right-hand room but a blocked doorway into the left-hand room suggests that it may once have been 2 cottages. C19 outshut added along the rear of the building. Another C19 outshut at the left gable end was made 2 storeys in the late C20. Original position of staircase unclear, at present it rises between the 2 rooms. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of late C20 small-paned 2-light casements. The centre ground floor window was formerly a doorways. To right of centre is early C20 lean-to with C20 plank door. C19 outshut along rear wall. Interior: Fireplace to right-hand room has chamfered wooden lintel with straight-cut stops. Oven in left-hand side. The left-hand room has insubstantial roughly chamfered wany cross beams.

Listing NGR: SX4381794191