Description

EXMINSTER
SX 98 NW

4/29 Peamore Cottage and adjoining
- garden wall
11.11.52
II

House and adjoining garden wall. Circa late C18/early C19. Brecchia rubble house
with slate roofs gabled at ends; main (south) range with end stacks with brick
shafts, further stacks to north west and east ranges.
Courtyard plan with 4 ranges round an enclosed pitched stone courtyard with water
pump and stone trough. Entrance archway to courtyard in the west range. The
principal range is the south range, single depth in plan with heated rooms on either
side of a central passage with a stair adjacent to the passage. A rear right 1 room
plan wing (part of the east range), was probably the kitchen, with a projecting end
stack. This wing has been extended to link with the north range which is now in use
as flats but may originally have been an unheated service range or outbuildings; the
west end stack of the north range is probably an addition. The west range consists
partly of accommodation and partly of the archway into the courtyard.
South Range 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay south elevation with coped gables
at ends and 2 attic dormers. Wide central doorway, partly boarded with C20 front
door into passage. Windows in the outer bays have cambered arches and keystones,
ground floor windows, 3-light with 12 panes per light, first floor windows similar
with 6 panes per light. 2-light casement above front door with rectangular opening,
keystone and 6 panes per light. A section of ornamental pitched stones in front of
the range contain a date which appears to be 1839.
The rear right wing (part of east range) also has a coped gable and window embrasures
with keystones. The west range has a large flat-arched doorway with a keystone and
voussoirs leading into the courtyard and a 4-light casement above with a cambered
arch, keystone and 10 panes per light.
Interior: Interior of south range only inspected, stair with stick balusters and
turned newel post.
A tall rendered cob garden wall with slate capping encloses the garden to the south
west and is important to the setting of the house.
Peamore Cottage is a picturesque group of buildings with some nice subsidiary
features.

Listing NGR: SX9193288230

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618947

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)