Description

CHITTLEHAMPTON
SS 62 NE

2/74 Nos. l and 2 Bradury Cottages
-
- II


Former farmhouse, later divided into 2 occupations. C17 but earlier fabric may well
be concealed. Whitewashed rendered stone rubble and cob. Slate roof, hipped. at
left end. Brick shafts to front lateral hall stack and to front right end corner
heating inner room. Lateral rear stone rubble stack heating lower end.
Basically 3-room and cross-passage plan, lower end to left, the original plan having
been little altered with the division of the farmhouse into 2 occupations, a direct
entry having been made into the hall adjoining the cross-passage and the hall/cross-
passage internal doorway infilled. Solid wall partition between hall and inner room
may suggest inner room is an addition, but no access to roofspace.
2 storeys. 4-window range. Irregular C20 fenestration. Slate leanto roof to
double porch. Plank doors, half-glazed to left side. C19 stone rubble and brick
outshuts with slate roofs to rear of each cottage.
Interior Boxed in cross ceiling beam to hall. C19 bench at upper end. C20 grate
may conceal original hall firepace. Partially cased-in chamfered durns to
hall/inner room doorway with raised and fielded 2 panelled door. Inner room has
axial hollow step-stopped chamfered ceiling beam. C20 grate to fireplace across
angle may conceal earlier one. Winder staircase to rear left-hand corner. Cyma
reversa moulded plaster cornice mostly concealed by wallpaper to chamber over hall.
Roof and lower end not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS6671126264

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26605537

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