Higher Woodland Cottages

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SX 76 NE WOODLAND WOODLAND HAMLET

3/71 1 and 2 Higher Woodland Cottages 23.8.55 (Formerly listed as Higher GV Woodland Farmhouse) II*

Pair of cottages, formerly a farmhouse occupied for several generations by the Culling family. Early C16 or possibly earlier with C18 or C19 additions at No. 2. Stone (except for a brick addition); coursed rubble at No. 1, random rubble at No. 2. Asbestos slate roof, with corrugated iron on the brick addition. L- shaped, the main range (now No. 2) having a 3-room and through passage plan with the kitchen wing (now No. 1) at right angles to the inner room; the plan is unusual in that the room below the passage seems to have been a parlour. Older stone addition behind parlour has reused C16 or C17 beams, but is probably C18. Brick addition behind hall stack is C19 or possibly later. 2 storeys, with single storey brick addition. No. 2 is 3 irregularly sized windows wide. Doorway, off-centre to left, has C20 door and porch, the latter with asbestos-slated pent roof. To its left on ground storey a reused wood ovolo mullioned window of 2-lights, right-hand side missing. To its right, a large window and then a small window. In right-hand gable and at rear of hall, large projecting chimney-stacks with set-offs and tapered tops. To west of hall stack a slight single-storey projection containing a window and having a slated pent roof (probably the hall oriel). In west gable, in ground storey, a 3-light wooden window with plain mullions and diagonally-set vertical bars in the centre of the lights. No. 1 is 2 windows wide, but with a large projection to right (in the angle of the L) having a single window in its second storey and a pent roof. C19 door to left of projection has 2 flush panels below and a 9-light glazed panel above. 1 window to left on ground storey. In left-hand gable a large projecting chimney stack with set-offs and plain top. Front windows in both cottages (except 1 with ovolo-mullions) have C19 or early C20 wood casements. Interiors: main range (No. 2) unusually well-preserved on ground storey. All 3 partitions are of stud-and-panel construction with chamfered studs where visible (partitions boarded at both ends of hall). In through passage studs have diagonal cut stops, the doorway to hall with shouldered head, that to lower room with cranked head. In lower room the studs have run-out stops set high enough to allow for a bench. Doorway from hall to inner room has cranked head; all 3 doorways have plank doors, that to lower room with strap hinges. Hall fireplace has wood lintel on moulded stone corbels. To its right a round-headed doorway with shouldered durn-jambs, opening into a stair turret; plank door with wrought-iron strap hinges (probably original). In opposite wall, at west end, a doorway with 2- centred head and shouldered durn-jambs, opening onto a stair with winding stone steps (with projection into No. 1). At lower end of hall ceiling-level drops slightly, possibly concealing an internal jetty projecting into a formerly open hall. Lower room has chamfered ceiling-beams without stops, and a fireplace with ovolo-moulded wood lintel having run-out stops. Rear doorway of through passage has chamfered wood lintel with step-stops. At top of stairs at rear of hall a reset balustrade of rather primitive late C17 turned balusters. Roof rebuilt in C19: No. 1 has fireplace with plain wood lintel in south wall of ground storey. Chamfered ceiling-beams without stops. Round-headed doorway with shouldered durn- jambs to projection in front wall (possibly a former stair turret, making 3 in the original house). Probably original roof-trusses (unblackened) with cranked collar- beams, butt purlins, some of them staggered and no ridge. Building group is in close proximity to church tower (q.v). Source: H R Evans in Transaction of Devonshire Association, 1960, pp 165, 168

Listing NGR: SX7910068755

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Sources

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Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1960), 165, 168

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