Church View Cottage And Beggars Roost

SX 69 SE SOUTH TAWTON SOUTH TAWTON

4/200 Church View Cottage and Beggars Roost II GV 2 cottages, formerly a single house. C17, probably earlier core, subdivided in the C19, modernised circa 1970. Plastered granite stone rubble and cob; cob or granite stacks topped with plastered brick; thatch roof. Plan and development: two 2-room plan cottages facing east and built down a hillslope. Beggars Roost is uphill at the right end and Church View Cottage is down hill to left. In fact these cottages have been made by subdividing a 4-room-and- through-passage plan. Beggars Roost occupies the passage, hall and inner room. The inner room, at the right end, is unheated and the hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage. Now hall and inner room have been knocked together and the rear passage doorway is blocked. Church View Cottage occupies the 2 rooms of the former service end and there is an axial stack between them. The left end room here might be an addition. Since no features were observed earlier than the C17 its earlier historic development (as suggested by the plan) is impossible to determine. Both cottages are 2 storeys with C20 outshots to rear. Exterior: overall 4-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The passage front doorway (to Beggars Roost) row contains a C20 door behind a contemporary thatch-roof porch on plain posts. Doorway to Church View Cottage in the left end wall and contains a similar door. The main roof is hipped to left and is gable- ended to right. Interior: only the interior of Beggars Roost was available for inspection at the time of this survey. Both rooms here have axial beams with neat soffit chamfers. The large former hall fireplace cheeks are made from single massive slabs of granite ashlar and the oak lintel is roughly-finished. It has a bread oven to rear. The roof was not inspected but the bottoms of the straight principals show and indicate that it is made up of probably C17 A-frame trusses.

Listing NGR: SX6534694482