Hillside And Higher Court

IDDESLEIGH IDDESLEIGH SS 50 NE 4/133 Hillside and Higher Court - GV II Pair of cottages, originally probably one house which was extended and divided. Early-mid C17 altered in later C19 or early C20. Rendered cob walls. Gable ended thatch roof. 2 brick gable end stacks and projecting rendered rubble front lateral stack with brick shaft. Plan: probably 3-room-and-through-passage plan originally although the position of passage and lower room is not now clear and the house tray have been extended at one end. Hall heated by front lateral stack. Divided into 2 cottages at lower end of hall, probably in later C19 or early C20. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front - 2 windows to each cottage - of C20, 2-, 3- and 4-light casements. Plank door at centre of each cottage. Semi- circular oven projection at left-hand end. Interior: chamfered cross beam in left-hand cottage. Feet of straight principals visible on first floor the access to roof space. Right-hand cottage has stone roll- moulded fireplace at gable end. Roof trusses replaced in C20.

Listing NGR: SS5702908227