Church Lodge Cottage And Front Boundary Railings

Church Lodge Cottage, etc, Church Street 12/206 9/206

Church Lodge Cottage, etc, Church Street 12/206 9/206

------------------------------------ ST4619 MARTOCK CP CHURCH STREET (West side)

12/206 Church Lodge Cottage and front boundary railings (formerley listed under Church Lodge) 19.4.61

GV II

Semi-detached house. Late C16, remodelled c1700 and c1800. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with abutment to north, coped gable to south; brick chimney stacks. 'L'-plan; 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays. Lower bay 1 has a 9- pane sash window in beaded surround, and lower bay 2 a C19 part-glazed door set in architrave, with later plain sidelights added; above a 3-light and a 2-light hollow-chamfered mullioned window, unworked top mitres, set in recesses, without labels; centrally a flat-roofed dormer window with timber casement. On the south gable a slightly projecting chimney stack and two 2-light mullioned windows to match, the upper window later extended and transomed; rear wing has two 3-light windows and a 2-light to match, the lower 3-light having a label: all windows have rectangular leaded panes. Interior not seen, but reported are hollow-chamfered beams with step and run-out stops, an ogee-mould-flat-arched fireplace, a cranked collar roof truss with mortice and tenon apex and trenched purlins. Extending from the north-east gateway of the churchyard (q.v) wrot-iron railings set on a low stone wall as the front boundary; railing have spearpoint tops, and there is a matching gate opposite the door-the whole adding to the setting of the house (VAG Report, SRO Unpublished, 1981).

Listing NGR: ST4616719170