Church Cottage

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EAST BUDLEIGH HIGH STREET (west side) East SY 0684 Budleigh 8/87 23 Church Cottage - GV II Cottage, once part of a larger house. Mid to late C17, refurbished and rearranged mid or late C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stack with a chimney shaft of mid to late C17 brick (a very rare survival for Devon); thatch roof. 2-room plan cottage set back a little from the road and adjoining Church Stile Cottage (q.v.) and facing east. It seems that was divided from Church Stile Cottage and refurbished in the C19, at which time a porch and stairwell was built onto the front left (southern) end in the angle between the cottage and the end wall of Church Stile Cottage. The stack is also in the party wall and is shared with Church Stile Cottage. 2 storeys. Irregular front fenestration comprising 3 late C19 - early C20 casements with glazing bars to the ground floor and a fourth on the end of the stair turret, and 2 first floor C19 casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass. C20 plank door in the side of the stair turret. The roof is gable-ended to right, it runs down continuously over the stair turret and continuously with the roof of Church Stile Cottage alongside. The chimney shaft breaks forward and back around the individual flues of both cottages. It is built of very thin (possibly imported Dutch) bricks with soffit-moulded coping, then extended a short distance with C19 brick and with C19 chimney pots. The gable end has another C20 plank door and a first floor pair of tall C19 casements with glazing bars and a ventilator at the top. There are C19 shaped bargeboards to the gable. Interior shows mostly C19 features. The fireplace appears to be enormous but is blocked. The roof is inaccessible but the bases of the principals show indicating A-frame trusses, their scantling large enough to suggest that the roof is C17. It appears that Church Cottage was originally part of a larger house with Church Stile Cottage (q.v.). It was built as part of a general mid to late C17 refurbishment of the property. The suspected size of the fireplace and its relationship to the adjoining house suggests that this had some semi-industrial use, a brewhouse or bakehouse for instance. Church Cottage is part of a group of attractive and varied houses, most of them listed, on the village High Street as it rises towards the Church. Indeed the proximity of Church Stile Cottage and Church Cottage to the church may suggest that this was the original church house.

Listing NGR: SY0661684878

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