22, Townsend

ILMINSTER

ST3614 TOWNSEND 1939-1/7/135 (South side) 29/07/76 No.22

II

3 cottages, now a house. C17, extended to left in late C18. Rough ashlar and limestone rubble; steep pantile roof with exposed rafter-ends, higher to the right end block with stepped stone coping to gable ends and part of centre; tall brick stacks with stepped brick cornices to gable ends of the right-hand block and to the rear of the ridge of the left-hand block. C17 one-unit plan extended to 3-unit plan in late C18. EXTERIOR: 2-storeys; 4-window range with 3-light casements to the first floor, that to the left, C19 with 2 panes to each light, the others are C20 with small panes. The ground floor, which is below street level, has four C20 two-light casements with upper vents to the left; two C17 windows to the right with hollow-moulded mullions, 4-light to inside right and 3-light to far right, with continuous label moulds. The C17 right gable return has a tiny rectangular window to right-of-centre at attic-level, a 2-light mullioned window with a label mould to the first-floor centre, and a C20 window below. INTERIOR: This has evidence of once being 3 cottages, said to have been changed c1975. C17 cottage to right has a huge Moolham stone lintel to the open fireplace backing onto the party wall of the ground-floor room. To the right of the fireplace is a passage, probably gable entrance through the thick, previously outer wall of the middle cottage; the left-hand cottage retains an open fireplace backing onto the party wall and a newel staircase to its left. A passage has been knocked through to the central cottage, reducing the width of the fireplace, the lintel rests on the passage wall. All the cottages have chamfered beams; C17 exposed roof truss in the right-hand cottage with trenched purlins, the tenoned collar now removed and the ridge set diagonally in a notch in the apex. There is a well in the south-west corner of the kitchen.

Listing NGR: ST3692114445