Cockshoot Cottages

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TQ 64 SW PEMBURY REDWINGS LANE

5/417 Nos 1 and 2 Cockshoot Cottages

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Pair of cottages, once, it is said, used as a public house. C16 and C17, extended and rearranged in the late C19/early C20. The original part is timber-framed. Its ground floor level is underbuilt with probably C17 English bond brick, timber-framing above is weatherboarded. Extension in same style except that the brick is stretcher bond. Brick stacks (the original one may have a stone base) and brick chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Pair of cottages built across the hillslope and facing north west. Overall L-plan building. Front block has a 4-room plan. No 1 occupies the right (south western) 3-room section; central entrance hall with staircase and small kitchen behind, dining room to right with an axial stack backing onto the entrance hall and the left room with an axial stack backing onto the adjoining cottage. No 2 occupies the left front room and the one room in the wing projecting behind which has an outer lateral stack. No 2 is apparently wholly late C19/early C20, an extension or rebuild onto the old house.

No 1 is the historic house. It had a 2-room plan and although the conclusive evidence is hidden in the roofspace it seems likely that it originated as a late medieval (probably early C16) open hall house. The hall has been subdivided and is now occupied by the left room, the entrance hall and the kitchen. The right end room was floored from the start and was originally an unheated service room with a bed chamber above. There is evidence that the chamber jettied out at the end. The stack serving this end was inserted in the C19 or early C20. The hall was floored in the late C16/early C17. Since this ceiling structure stops well short of the present chimneybreast it may be that the hall once had a smoke bay that end, itself maybe replacing an open hearth fire.

Both cottages are 2 storeys.

Exterior: Overall regular 4-window front. The left bay (No 2) has circa 1988 uPVC casements whilst the rest (No 1) has C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. Doorway to No 1 is right of centre and doorway to No 2 is near the left end. Both are up flights of stone and brick steps and both have late C19/early C20 plank doors under gabled hoods on raking struts. Roof is hipped both ends.

Interior: There is no sign of early carpentry or other features inside No 2. However the C16 and C17 structure appears to be well-preserved in No 1. The service room has original axial joists of large scantling which show evidence for the end jetty. Some original large scantling framing shows at first floor level. The off-centre hall truss is closed although its large jowled wallposts and cambered tie-beam is exposed. The roof structure above is inaccessible. Former hall has an intersecting beam 4-panel ceiling dating from the late C16/early C17. Both beams and joists are chamfered with step stops. The left (north eastern) half beams stop well short of the chimneybreast. Large brick fireplace with chamfered oak lintel may date from later in the C17.

According to the owner No 1 was once known as the Five Bells public house.

Listing NGR: TQ6275142426

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