Lane End Leigh Cottage

CHRISTOW CHRISTOW SX 88 NW 2/93 Leigh Cottage and Lane End GV II

2 adjoining cottages, originally one house. Late medieval, altered in the C16/C17 (Laithwaite). Whitewashed rendered stone rubble and cob ; thatched roof to left (Lane End) hipped at left end, thatch replaced with tile to right which is gabled at the right end ; axial granite stack with rendered shaft, rear lateral stacks. Plan: No access to interior at time of survey (1987) but appears to be a 3 room and through passage arrangement,lower end to the right,hall stack backing on to passage: Lane End the higher end with a new doorway, Leigh Cottage preserving what is probably the original doorway to the old passage. An additional section at the upper end links Lane End to Carpenters (Laithwaite). Exterior: slightly set back from the main road; 2 storeys, asymmetrical 3 + 2 wndow front with a C20 glazed porch to right of centre (Leigh Cottage) probably leading into a cross passage. C20 front door with porch hood to Lane End. 3 ground floor C20 metal frame casements with enlarged embrasures, 5 first floor 2 and 3-light C20 timber casements with glazing bars. Garage at right angles to the left end of Lane End not included in listing. Interior: Not inspected at time of survey but known to have a plank and muntin screen with diagonal stops at the upper end of the hall, the room over the inner room jettied into the hall which has a hollow-moulded granite fireplace with bread oven and a plank and muntin gallery to the left of it, starting below ceiling level with step stops and mortises on the lower beam. At the rear of the hall there is a door with a cranked head, a window with plain mullions at the rear of the inner room is now covered by a later addition. The passage, in Leigh Cottage has chamfered stopped joists, the rear of the stack is exposed in the passage wih a cornice (Laithwaite). Roof timbers likely to be of interest. Group value with Carpenters and Vallens Cottage adjoining at the left. Laithwaite, M. Unpublished notes on Lane End.

Listing NGR: SX8367585035