Tudor Cottage

SAMPFORD COURTENAY STICKLEPATH SS 69 SW 12/211 Tudor Cottage 22.2.67 II GV House in row of eight. Circa 1500 with late C16 and C17 alterations and circa late C17 addition. Rendered rubble walls. Thatched roof gabled at either end where it joins attached houses. Axial granite ashlar stack with moulded dripcourse and tapering cap. Plan: originally 3-room and through passage plan, lower end to the right, inner room rebuilt as adjoining cottage to the left. Initially the house was open to the roof over the hall and probably lower end (but possibly from end to end) with central hearth to hall. Hall stack inserted backing onto passage in circa late C16 but the hall very likely remained open to the roof until some time in the early-mid C17. In the C17 a small heated rear wing was added behind the passage, probably for kitchen purposes. At some stage the inner room was absorbed into the adjoining house to the left. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 3-window front of C19 small-paned 2-light casements on first floor, on ground floor is C20 casement to left and C19 16-paned horned sash to right. Central C19 plank door under slate doorhood. Interior: at rear of passage is wide original wooden doorframe with bowed jambs and cambered lintel. Hall has chamfered granite-framed fireplace with very high lintel. Chamfered ceiling beam with straight-cut stops, some of the joists are also chamfered. Behind the fireplace a section of chamfered plank and muntin screen divides the hall from the passage. Facing the passage the hall stack has a granite ashlar stack. Rear wing has fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. Roof: original roof structure survives, smoke-blackened, consisting of 2 probably true crucks, one over the hall has only the rear blade, the front one has been cut off by the inserted stack. The other is at the lower side of the passage - an open truss with a partition inserted beside it, and it has a morticed cranked collar. Threaded ridge with conventional morticed apex and trenched or threaded purlins. The end truss in the lower gable end has a strengthening block below the apex. Over the passage at the front a section of the roof has been plastered and this is also blackened. At the higher end of the hall is a later partition inserted to separate off the higher end.

Listing NGR: SX6417494110