Description

NORTH MOLTON SOUTH RADWORTHY
SS 73 SW
10/179 Nos 1 and 2, South Radworthy
- Cottage
II
Pair of cottages. Late C17 cottage, with adjoining cottage added in the mid to late
C19. Minor late C20 alterations. C17 part is of coursed stone rubble, cement-
rendered to front, and C19 additions of uncoursed sandstone rubble with red-brick
dressings to openings. Gable-ended corrugated-asbestos roof over cottage (probably
formerly thatched) and gable-ended Welsh-slate roof to C19 addition with C20 bitumen
covering. C17 stone square stack with weatherings and string course. C19 brick
stacks.
Plan and development: Late C17 plan two-room cottage (facing south), consisting of
principal room to right with integral end stack and staircase projecting to rear of
right-hand end, smaller room (probably formerly-unheated) to left. Corner stack at
rear of left-hand room, probably a C18 or C19 insertion. Mid to late C19 addition to
right, consisting of one-room plan addition (present kitchen) to old cottage with
front door, and separate cottage to right, with external brick end stack. Two
storeys, with one-storey lean-to outshut.
Exterior: Two-window front to C17 left-hand part; late C19 and C20 two-light wooden
casements. Shallow battered buttress to right. C19 addition to right has 2 first
floor C19 two-light wooden casements with 2-light glazed gables above, and ground-
floor C19 cross window to right with brick segmental-arched head. Two C19 doorways
to left (left-hand one to left-hand cottage) with brick segmental-arched heads, and
C19 boarded doors (left-hand one with glazed panel) and pegged beaded frames. C19
one-storey lean-to addition set-back to right, with segmental-headed doorway. C20
one-storey lean-to addition to left-hand gable end.
Interior of C17 cottage: Principal ground-floor room has roughly-chamfered spine beam
and large open fireplace with C19 mantelshelf. Old winder staircase in projection at
rear. Left-hand ground-floor room with roughly-chamfered spine beam, and corner
fireplace to rear with C20 surround. Former external bread-oven projection in C19
right-hand room (present kitchen). First floor of left-hand cottage and interior of
right-hand cottage not inspected.
Site of old chapel approximately 50 metres to north-west of cottage.

Listing NGR: SS7475932685

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509300

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014