Description

SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE STRAND (south side), Lympstone

5/59 Hope Cottage and Fern
- Cottage

GV II

2 dwellings. Late C16, with later alterations and extensions. Plastered cob,
blocked to front, on stone footings; gabled-end slate roof. Originally a 3-room,
through-passage plan house, much altered internally, with 2 later (C19) rear wings,
higher end to left of passage; external rear lateral stack heats hall; 2 later
stacks heat the inner room, now subdivided (Fern Cottage), 1, a rear lateral stack,
the other a left-hand internal end stack; right-hand end stack heats service end.
All stacks with brick shafts. 2 storeys.
Front: 6-window range; three 2-pane horned sashes to first of Fern Cottage, with a
12-pane hornless sash window either side of glazed door under canopy on shaped
brackets; Hope Cottage with casement windows to 1st floor; 12-pane hornless sash
window to left of latticed, gabled porch, 2-light casement window to right. Iron
lion masks on gutter along entire front. The rear of both dwellings with later
additions, including an early-C18 (or earlier) rear wing to the service end (Hope
Cottage), timber framed with brick nogging, and with C19 casement windows; the rear
wing to Fern Cottage, late C19, and separately gabled.
Interior: jointed cruck roof over hall and service end; 3 trusses with morticed
and pegged apex carpentry; the inner room roof is later, probably C17 or C18; only
the cruck above the party wall visible from the roof space of Fern Cottage, and this
is clean; roofspace of Hope Cottage ceiled, but the lower members of the hall
crucks visible and are chamfered. Service end with 2 chamfered ceiling beams with
hollow step stops. 2 early-C18 panelled doors; Fern Cottage with chamfered,
unstopped ceiling beam (to inner room) and 2 early C18 fielded panel doors.

Listing NGR: SX9905484137

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398185

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)