Description

MINEHEAD

SS9744 STAUNTON LANE, Alcombe
900-1/5/148 (West side)
04/07/52 Staunton Cottage

II

Formerly known as: Lower Staunton STAUNTON LANE Alcombe.
Cottage, at a right-angle to the lane. C16 or early C17,
altered and extended in C18. Cob on rubblestone, thatched roof
hipped to left, gabled to right, with snecked rubblestone
stack (formerly external) to former right gable end. Thatched
rubblestone left-hand wing. 2-unit plan with C18 lower
2-storey wing to the left. 2 storeys; 1-window range. Timber
lintels over late C19 windows and doors, the entrance to the
return of the C18 wing, a former wash-house, facing the lane.
The room above has access from inside the cottage.
INTERIOR: 3 stop-chamfered cross-beams and oak lintel to open
fire to the ground-floor right, now blocked. C19 stairs. The
roof is plastered but one truss and 2 windbraces of probable
C16 structure are exposed.

Listing NGR: SS9744944828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502180

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)