Puddavine Cottage

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DARTINGTON PUDDAVEN SX7861-7961 Puddavine Cottage 13/146

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House. Circa and C17. White painted stone rubble. Thatched roof with gabled end and eyebrow eaves. Stone rubble gable end chimney stacks with tapered caps. Plan: 2 room plan house, each room heated from a gable end stack; the lower right-hand room is the hall/kitchen with an oven in the fireplace and a stair turret at the rear right; the left-hand room is the parlour. The partition on the right side of the central through passage has been removed creating a direct entry into the consequently larger right-hand room. In circa late C17 or C18 an outbuilding was added to the right end which is now incorporated into the house as the kitchen. In the later C18 or C19 another outbuilding was built at the left end, the first floor of which has also been incorporated into the house accommodation. A single storey outshut was added to the rear of the right-hand room and passage in the C19. The land falls away steeply at the rear of the house and the road at the front is at higher level than the house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window original range with early C19 3-light casements with diamond leaded panes and wooden lintels; the eaves thatch is swept over the first floor windows. Central doorway with old porch with stone rubble side walls and lean-to shingle roof; the original flank door with cover strips and iron studs has been moved to the front of the porch. To right a circa C17/18 extension receding at an angle; cob and stone rubble with a thatched roof at lower level and with a half hipped end; one storey and attic, irregular fenestration of C19 casements with leaded panes. Set back to left a circa C19 outbuilding, now partly incorporated in to the house, stone rubble with thatched hipped roof; one storey at the front and 2 storey at the rear wing to ground falling away behind the house. Behind the right-hand room and slightly projecting at rear (left) a stair turret with a chamfered wooden window frame. Later single storey rear outshut. Interior: passage rear doorway, now within the later outshut, has the original chamfered timber door frame. Plastered stud partition between the 2 rooms, to left of the former passage; the right-hand partition has been removed. closely spaced roughly hewn cross-beams. Fireplace in left-hand room blocked, and with niche to right with shaped shelves. Fireplace in right-hand end with chamfered cambered timber lintel with scroll or step stops and over to right. Wooden newel stairs in rear right-hand corner, in stair turret; the stairs rise over the oven to the first floor room; at the bottom of the stairs original chamfered doorframe with hollow step steps and a plank door with strap hinges terminating in fleur-de-lis. Roof: 3 trusses with short curved feet embedded in the tops of the walls; morticed apexes; dovetail lap-jointed collars, each joint has a wooden peg and a nail; threaded purlins and threaded diagonal ridge-piece. The rafters have been replaced. The roof over the lower end wing (former outbuilding) has straight principals threaded purlins and threaded diagonal ridge-piece; the collars halved, lapped and pegged to the faces of the principals.

Listing NGR: SX7946261552

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