3-8, Elliott Plain

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 ELLIOTT PLAIN 1011-1/7/63 (South side) Nos.3-8 (Consecutive)

GV II

Row of 6 cottages. Frontages c1830s but the core may be a C17 house. Roughcast, mass wall construction, some cottages colour-washed; asbestos slate roof, gabled at ends; one axial stack with old chimney pots, 2 rear lateral stacks, one shouldered and projecting, with rendered shafts and drip ledges. Plan: single-depth main block, each cottage 1 room wide with a single-storey rear service lean-to. Judging from the position and appearance of the stacks the left end of the range may have originated as a 3-room and through-passage plan house, although the evidence is uncertain. First floors arranged as flying freeholds. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1-window front to each cottage. Nos 8 & 10 with front doors to the left, the others with front doors to the right. Each cottage retains matching late C19 or early C20 recessed half-glazed timber doors with overlights; one matching C19 ground-floor 3-light timber casement with 3 panes per light and 1 first-floor 16-pane early C19 hornless sash. No.8 (left end cottage) has 1 ground- and 1 first-floor 3-light casement, 3 panes per light. Rear elevations retain 3-light casements matching those on front. INTERIOR: may retain features of interest. Nos 3 & 5 partially inspected, modernised but party walls suggest re-arrangement of earlier plan form.

Listing NGR: SX7414166097