Description

SX 86 NE ABBOTSKERSWELL MAIN STREET
Abbotskerwell
3/12 Rock Cottage
-
II
Small house. Probably C16, extended in C18 and C19, altered in C20.
Rendered rubble/cob walls. Hipped thatched roof. 2 rendered rubble stacks, one
projecting lateral stack at the front, one axial to the right.
The building may originally have been open to the roof with central hearth then
ceiled in C17 with front lateral stack added to hall/kitchen to left. 1 room
probaably C18 extension at left-hand end and C19 one room extension added at right
end.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of circa early C20 2 and 3 light casements
with diamond 'leaded' panes. C19 slate roofed open fronted lean-to porch at centre
to right of lateral stack with C19 plank door behind.
Interior: One side-pegged jointed cruck survives over the hall. There is no access
to the roof space over the hall, but original hip timbers remain at the left-hand
end within the extension and appear to be darkened, so the roof may be smoke-
blackened. Hall fireplace has chamfered wooden lintel with hollow step stops; oven
in left-hand side. Half beam at passage end of hall, cut off at rear, has ogee
stop. Central cross beam in hall, chamfered, has hollow step stops. Above the hall
fireplace are 3 small plaster plaques the central one is a lions head, the outer 2
are grotesque faces - they may be C17.
This is a quite unusual example of a 2 room probably late medieval house which still
preserves a number of interior features and a relatively traditional exterior.

Listing NGR: SX8540868900

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389624

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)