Ye Old Cottage Including Gate Piers To South East

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS74NW A39, Barbrook 858-1/2/53 (North side) 03/09/73 Ye Old Cottage including gate piers to south-east (Formerly Listed as: LYNTON BARBROOK The Cottage)

GV II

Detached house with gate piers. C17, but C19 N front (towards stream) rebuilding. Rendered rubble, some painted, and some slatehanging, slate roof. Probably originally a 2-room cross-passage plan with end stacks, but now with symmetrical entrance front (N) and lateral stack to rear outshut. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 2-light small-pane casements, with a central plank door under a gabled porch. The right gable is slate-hung, with one 4-pane sash; the roof sweeps down to the road side above a curved corner, and there is a large slate-hung lateral stack to the rear wall, which also has a pointed quadrant window with radial bars. The left gable has at first floor a fixed casement with 4 vertical bars and lapped glazing, and a large 4-pane sash at ground floor. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 2 gate piers at entrance SE of cottage, tall rubble plinths surmounted by late medieval finials, probably reused from the former chapel (qv) at South Furzehill Farmhouse and similar to those at North Furzehill Farmhouse (qv).

Listing NGR: SS7159147672