Easdon Cottage

SX 78 SW 4/9

MANATON Easdon Cottage

GV II

Small house. Late C17/early C18, altered mid C18. Considerably modernised in C20. Granite rubble walls, rendered at front. Rendered stone gable-end chimneys with drip-course. Slate roof gabled at either end. 4-room plan with central hallway. 2 main rooms at the front with larger right-hand room. Central passage opening into stairwell with C20 staircase against rear wall. Behind the 2 main rooms are 2 smaller service rooms. 3-light C20 casements with 2 storeys. Regular 3-window front range of 2 and 3-light C20 casements with glazing bars. Doorway to left of centre has C19/C20 plank door with 2 glazed lights. In right gable end is doorway into rear service room enclosed in C20 leanto stone porch. Above is 2-light casement window with timber lintel. Small blocked window near the top of the gable. Straight joint in stonework here shows where the roof has been raised and the pitch altered. At the rear of the house a single storey C20 extension occupies the space between the house and the adjoining barn. Interior: several 6-fielded panel doors with H-L hinges and a 2-fielded panel cupboard door and shutters to window in ground floor left room. C18 pegged roof with curved collars lapped onto straight principals and purlins trenched into the backs of the trusses.

Listing NGR: SX7279681862