Description

TQ 64 SW PEMBURY REDWINGS LANE

5/417 Nos 1 and 2 Cockshoot
Cottages

II

Pair of cottages, once, it is said, used as a public house. C16 and C17,
extended and rearranged in the late C19/early C20. The original part is
timber-framed. Its ground floor level is underbuilt with probably C17 English
bond brick, timber-framing above is weatherboarded. Extension in same style
except that the brick is stretcher bond. Brick stacks (the original one may
have a stone base) and brick chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Pair of cottages built across the hillslope and facing north west.
Overall L-plan building. Front block has a 4-room plan. No 1 occupies the
right (south western) 3-room section; central entrance hall with staircase and
small kitchen behind, dining room to right with an axial stack backing onto
the entrance hall and the left room with an axial stack backing onto the
adjoining cottage. No 2 occupies the left front room and the one room in the
wing projecting behind which has an outer lateral stack. No 2 is apparently
wholly late C19/early C20, an extension or rebuild onto the old house.

No 1 is the historic house. It had a 2-room plan and although the conclusive
evidence is hidden in the roofspace it seems likely that it originated as a
late medieval (probably early C16) open hall house. The hall has been
subdivided and is now occupied by the left room, the entrance hall and the
kitchen. The right end room was floored from the start and was originally an
unheated service room with a bed chamber above. There is evidence that the
chamber jettied out at the end. The stack serving this end was inserted in
the C19 or early C20. The hall was floored in the late C16/early C17. Since
this ceiling structure stops well short of the present chimneybreast it may be
that the hall once had a smoke bay that end, itself maybe replacing an open
hearth fire.

Both cottages are 2 storeys.

Exterior: Overall regular 4-window front. The left bay (No 2) has circa 1988
uPVC casements whilst the rest (No 1) has C19 and C20 casements with glazing
bars. Doorway to No 1 is right of centre and doorway to No 2 is near the left
end. Both are up flights of stone and brick steps and both have late
C19/early C20 plank doors under gabled hoods on raking struts. Roof is hipped
both ends.

Interior: There is no sign of early carpentry or other features inside No 2.
However the C16 and C17 structure appears to be well-preserved in No 1. The
service room has original axial joists of large scantling which show evidence
for the end jetty. Some original large scantling framing shows at first floor
level. The off-centre hall truss is closed although its large jowled
wallposts and cambered tie-beam is exposed. The roof structure above is
inaccessible. Former hall has an intersecting beam 4-panel ceiling dating
from the late C16/early C17. Both beams and joists are chamfered with step
stops. The left (north eastern) half beams stop well short of the
chimneybreast. Large brick fireplace with chamfered oak lintel may date from
later in the C17.

According to the owner No 1 was once known as the Five Bells public house.

Listing NGR: TQ6275142426

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552086

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