Church Gate Cottage

SS9144 LUCCOMBE CP STONEY STREET (North side)

14/59 Church Gate Cottage

22.5.69

GV II

Cottage, subsequently extended as school, now cottage. C17, extended late C18-early C19. Rendered and roughcast over rubble, thatched roof hipped to curved east end and to lower west end, brick stacks marking extent of original dwelling. Plan: backing onto churchyard, probably 2-cell and cross passage, entrance resited in curved addition at east end, large room added beyond west stack with lower single storey entrance bay. East end curved 2-light casement with plank door below, rustic wooden porch with clay tiled pentice hood, long left return fronting road, left end plank door in single storey addition with remains of wall abutting, C19 4-light ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed window with herringbone leading to right of stack. Two early C19 leaded iron casements, similar below flanked by two smaller glazed openings, end right one C20, all with wrought iron window box supports. Rear elevation lit only by one tiny glazed opening. Interior not seen. (Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: SS9111644515