Toll Cottage and Porch Cottage

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 January 2024 to update the name and, address, amend description due to change of building use and to reformat the text to current standards.

SY 0684
8/78

EAST BUDLEIGH
HIGH STREET (west side)
No 3 Toll Cottage and No.5 Porch Cottage

(Formerly listed as No.5, HIGH STREET)

GV
II
Two cottages, converted into single dwelling by time of listing, later subdivided. Parts may have C16 origins, rearranged as cottages probably in late C17 or early C18, refurbished in late C19, united to form a single cottage in C20. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with late C19 brick and C19 chimney pots; thatch roof. Rear brick outshot with slate roof.

A pair of cottages facing east onto High Street. The left (southern) cottage has a one-room plan with an end stack. The right cottage has a two-room plan with a central axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces and front lobby entrance. The right room here maybe once have been the service end room of a C16 three-room-and- through-passage plan house; the rest of that house now occupied by adjoining Maytree Cottage (q.v.). Both cottages have tight winder stairs rising to rear of the stacks and C19 service outshots across the rear.

Two storeys. Regular three-window front; one to the left cottage and a symmetrical two window arrangement to the right cottage. At the left end there is a C19 horizontal sliding twelve-pane sash and a plank door to right. To right of this two late C19-early C20 casements with glazing bars, one either side of a C19 five-fielded panel door. Directly above each of these windows is a C19 three-light casement containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The roof is gable-ended to left and runs continuously with that over adjoining Maytree Cottage (q.v) to right. High up on the wall at the left end there is a small plaque which records the demolition in 1977 of a toll house with unusually fine architectural detail which formerly stood in front here.

Interior is largely the result of the C19 refurbishment although this was probably superficial. All the fireplaces are blocked by C19 and C20 grates and little structural detail is exposed. A single axial beam is exposed in the left end room. It has a neat soffit chamfer; probably late C17-early C18. The roof space is inaccessible and the lower parts of the pinicpals which do show are plastered over. Nevertheless they indicate a roof of A-frame trusses. Some of the plaster is backed onto water reeds rather than wooden lathes. This type of plaster is usually C17 but could be later. Nos.3 and 5 High Street only hints at a C17 date. However the adjoining Maytree Cottage (q.v.) has C16 features and it seems likely that the right end room here at least belonged to that house. Possibly the row of cottages were made by dividing up and extending a large early house. If so C16 and C17 features may be hidden here in Nos 3 and 5.

The cottages are one of a group of attractive and varied outbuildings, most of them listed, which line High Street as it rises to the Church Of All Saints (q.v)

Listing NGR: SY0660684774

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

86278

Legacy System:

LBS

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.