Hazel Cottage and Raddon Cottage

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SS 90 SW THORVERTON 8/105 Hazel Cottage and Raddon Cottage - GV II 2 adjoining cottages, originally a farmhouse. Circa mid/late C17. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble ; thatched roof hipped at left end of main range, half- hipped at right end, gabled at end of wing ; projecting lateral volcanic stone stack with stone shaft (partly dismantled), projecting end stack to wing. Plan Overall L plan, the main range (Raddon Cottage) on a west-east axis with a north-south wing (Hazel Cottage) at the west end. The original plan is not entirely clear : the early core of the main range is single depth and was probably at one time 1 heated room to the left (possibly the C17 hall) and a narrower unheated service room to the right. The ground floor is now 1 room on plan with an entrance at the right hand, a blocked doorway to the left of the lateral stack may have been the original entrance. The stack has a rectangular projecting bread oven. The north- south wing has a heated room at the front (south) end and an unheated and formerly windowless room at the north end (under the east-west roofline). The centre room has been repartitioned. C20 single-storey rear addition to main range. Exterior 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1 plus 2 window front; entrance to Raddon Cottage at the extreme right, C20 front door with gabled porch canopy, 2-light casement with sqaure leaded panes above. To the left the front elevation is slightly set back with a 3-light ground floor casement in a C17 chamfered oak frame with chamfered mullions. The stack, to the left, has set-offs and the rectangular bread oven is thatched. The south end of the wing (Hazel Cottage) has a projecting rounded rendered stack with slate drip ledges and 1 first floor and 1 ground floor casement window. The left return has 2 entrances, 1 into the northernmost room, which is slightly set back, and 1 into a narrow passage. 2 first floor and 1 ground floor C18 sliding sashes with glazing bars, other casements later. Interior Raddon Cottage has 2 chamfered cross beams, 1 with a step stop and a fireplace with ovolo-moulded volcanic jambs and an ovolo-moulded lintel which does not match the width between the jambs. Hazel Cottage has a scoll-stopped cross beam to the heated room, modern grate possibly conceals earlier features. Roof The roof trusses of Hazel Cottage are pegged collar rafter with x apexs, the west-east range trusses are similar but redundant rafters suggest that the north south wing may be secondary to the main range. The building was formerly known as Way Farm. A lease of 1680 exists between Roger Tuckfield of Raddon Court and John Norrish of Thorverton, "Sopeboiler" who was to pay rent on ways tenement of 8s, a capon or 15d and harvest day or 16d. DRO, 21/37/18/1. An attractive thatched building on a prominent roadside site in Raddon.

Listing NGR: SS9168901899

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