This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SS 21 SW MORWENSTOW COOMBE
3/92 Nos 1 and 2 Mill House (formerly 29.9.61 listed as Combe Mill Cottage and Cottage and tea room at Combe Mill)
GV II
2 adjoining houses. Probably late C17/early C18 origins, C19 and C20 alterations.
Colourwashed stone. Wheat straw thatched roof at right end, lower slate roof at left end. Brick chimney to left gable end, brick chimney on stone stack at right gable end, large projecting lateral stone stack to rear with brick shaft.
Accommodation of No. 1 is partly under slate roof and partly under thatched roof.
Only 2 rooms of the original house now extant, the original plan perhaps with baffle entry at right alternatively through centre of front into hall on left with rear lateral stack. The right hand room, lean-to and rear outshut now No.2. No. 1 is now 2 rooms wide with entrance into stair hall, No. 2 now L plan. 2 storeys. 1 + 2 window range. No. 1 has central C20 front door, 2 ground floor 2 light C20 casements, 6 panes per light, 2 similar first floor windows under brick heads. No.
2 has C20 front door on right of front, similar window to ground floor, 1 to first floor under insitu concrete lintels. C20 2-light casement, 3 panes per light in lean-to. Interior of No. 1 has massive fireplace to ground floor right with roughly-chamfered fireplace beam, slate floor. Interior of No. 2 not inspected.
Repaired for the Landmark Trust by P Pearn of Plymouth, circa 1975. The Landmark [Trust Handbook, p.20.]
Listing NGR: SS2098611728
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Photographer: Phillips, Hilary
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Slate, Stone, Straw, Thatch, Stuart House, Georgian Monument <By Form>, Domestic, Dwelling