Rodcombe

Rodcombe is a house dating from the late 17th century, constructed of ashlar in courses of differing heights. It features a limestone slate roof with flat coped gables and roll cross saddles at the gable ends. There is a group of four square ashlar chimneys located off centre to the right, aligned with the front door, and a single similar chimney from the left gable, all having moulded upper and lower courses. The house has a lobby entrance plan with three rooms, one room deep, and a stair wing that projects forward to the right of the front door. A projecting porch at the rear is not in its original position. The building is two storeys with an attic, which is lit by a single dormer from the roof. The façade has a 3:1 window arrangement, featuring two, three, and four-light flat chamfered stone mullioned windows with stopped hoods and 20th-century metal casements with leaded lights, including one king mullioned window. The front entrance has an unpainted plank door set in a flush, four-centred, flat-chamfered, arched surround. The initials and date "IT 1711" are inscribed on the left quoin. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace with a large bressummer to the left of the stack, and a reused tie beam with very large moulded stops. Various dates and initials are inscribed on the inside of one of the chamfers of the far left window, with the earliest inscription in the house being "E.B 1680" on a beam over the stairs. The ground floor was the only part inspected.