Smugglers' Cottage And Attached Walls

MINEHEAD

SS9646 CHURCH STEPS 900-1/3/18 (East side) 04/07/52 No.6 Smugglers' Cottage and attached walls (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STEPS (East side) No.6)

GV II

Shown on OS map as No.8. House. Probably early C17. Colour-washed cob on a rubblestone base with a large lateral stack to the front, off-set below and above the eaves, and a very tall C20 brick shaft; hipped thatched roof. 3-unit plan with passage to right of hall and lower end to right; jointed cruck over the passage; late medieval open hall with inserted C17 front lateral stack to left of through passage. Pantiled outshut to the rear right. 2 storeys on a sloping site; 2-window range. To the left are two C19 two-light casement windows to both floors, the cills of those on the ground floor at ground level; to the right of the stack is a C20 door with a C19 two-light casement window to the right of it. INTERIOR: open fireplace to lateral stack with timber bressummer (probably later); jointed cruck over the passage has ridge purlin set on tenoned apex with splayed scarf joints to the purlins; upper side of truss (originally closed) and ridge purlin are smoke-blackened. C17 truss with ridge-in-notch to 2-bay lower end. Rafters with bark, support wheat straw thatch. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubblestone walls approx 2m high extend approx 7m to the left and 5m to the right. One of the least altered vernacular houses in Minehead.

Listing NGR: SS9666646744