Fairbrook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1955. House.

Fairbrook Cottage

WRENN ID
white-lancet-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1955
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fairbrook Cottage is a small house dating from the early 19th century. It features rendered granite rubble walls and brick gable end stacks, topped with a thatched roof that has gable ends. The layout includes a central stair hall with a large heated room on either side and smaller service rooms behind. To the far left, there is a small room that may have originally served as a summerhouse, along with 20th-century extensions at the rear.

The cottage is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front, a central door, and a small separate section to the far left. The first-floor windows are two-light late 20th-century casements that were originally horizontal sliding sashes, and the roof is slightly raised above the windows. The front door is likely the original panelled door, though the top panels have been replaced with glazing. On either side of the door are original French windows with marginal lights.

A verandah with a hipped slate roof supported by wooden posts extends almost the entire length of the front, likely an original feature. Attached to the far left is a small two-storey Gothick summerhouse, which has a pointed arched doorway and a similar window above, topped with battlements, possibly made from reused materials.

To the right of the house, there is a tall granite rubble garden wall that incorporates a re-used granite four-centred arched doorway with roll mouldings and a chamfered plinth. The interior includes an early 19th-century staircase with turned newels and stick balusters, arched recesses beside the fireplaces, and panelled surrounds to the French windows.

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