Kelly Cross Cottage

LUSTLEIGH SX 78 SE 1/161

Kelly Cross Cottage

II

Cottage. Late C16 or early C17, with added lean-to. Roughcast cob with thatched roof, half-hipped at-right-hand side. Rendered stone chimneystack with thatch weatherings and tapered top on left-hand gable. Projecting brick stack, also rendered, in right-hand gable. 2-room and through-passage plan, the rear doorway blocked by a later staircase; larger left-hand room was clearly the hall. 2 storeys. 2 widely-spaced windows wide, with doorway between. Windows have old wooden casements, except for left-hand ground-storey window which is C20. Plank door and wooden porch, also C20. In lean-to to left an older plank door with strap-hinges. In right-hand gable a C18 or early C19 metal casement with leaded panes; the upper part of the opening, now blocked, rises into the roof-space. Interior: in left-hand gable in ground storey a fireplace with granite jambs and chamfered wood lintel having step-stops; large oven in the back. To left of fireplace a winding granite staircase. In ground-floor room to right a chamfered upper-floor beam with run-out stops. Roof has 2 original trusses with plain, heavy principal rafters sitting on the wall-tops; halved collars with shaped ends, through purlins and ridge. The common rafters seem to have been renewed. The partition wall and chimney in the roofspace over the room above the hall are plastered. Well-preserved cottages of this date are uncommon.

Listing NGR: SX7903981901