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Summary

Former farmhouse, now two cottages, early - mid 16th century with major later 16th and 17th century improvements and modernised in 1976.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1098079: ROSE COTTAGE

Other References/Statuses

• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 86971

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XVI - 1501 AD to 1600 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Lower Henstrete Farm' shown.

Fisher, J., 1999, East Devon Conservation Area Appraisals: Whimple, 8 (Report - non-specific). SDV347093.

An example of local vernacular architecture. Other details: Maps, photograph.

English Heritage, 2011, Historic Houses Register (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV346128.

Two cottages, made by dividing a former farmhouse. Early - mid 16th century with major later 16th and 17th century improvements, modernised in 1976. Plastered cob, some of it without stone rubble footings, south end wall rebuilt in 20th century brick; hall stack is timber- framed, the kitchen stack is cob, the other is stone rubble or brick, all have 20th century plastered brick chimneyshafts; slate roof, formerly thatch.
Plan and development: pair of cottages set back from the road and facing west- north-west, say west. Each has a two-room plan, No 1 to the left (north) and No 2 to the right (south). This layout has been adapted from a four-room-and-through-passage plan. No 1 occupies the site of the passage and two lower end rooms. The left (north) end room is the former kitchen/bakehouse with rear lateral stack including a projecting smoking chamber. Next to it was a small unheated service room which has been enlarged by the removal of the passage lower end screen. The passage front doorway is now blocked. No 2 occupies the former hall and inner room. The hall has an axial stack backing onto the site of the passage. The inner room has a projecting end stack but this was inserted in the 20th century when this end wall was rebuilt. The original house had a three-room-and-through-passage plan; the kitchen/bakehouse was a mid 17th century extension. The original roof appears to be clean. Thus it seems that the hall stack is an original feature. The inner room end may have been floored over from the beginning but the hall at least is thought to have been open to the roof. It was floored over in the late 16th - early 17th century. The kitchen/bakehouse extension is wholly mid 17th century and it seems that the house once extended further northwards. Cottages are two storey with secondary outshots to rear.
Exterior: overall irregular five-window front of 19th and 20th century casements with glazing bars. The window right of centre is blocking the original passage doorway. The doorway to No 1 is to rear of the left end (into the former kitchen/bakehouse). It is a late 19th century six-panel door behind a contemporary gabled porch with wavy bargeboards. The front doorway to No 2 is towards the right end (into the former hall) and contains 20th century French windows. It is flanked by 20th century buttresses. A little right of centre at first floor level is an old stucco oval plaque. It was painted in the 20th century "Rose Cottage, 1660". Roof is gable-ended.
Interior: little carpentry is exposed below roof level in No 2. The former hall/inner room partition is plastered over (it may be an oak screen) and the fireplace is blocked (its timber-framed stack shows in the roofspace). The hall crossbeam is exposed; it is chamfered with cut diagonal stops. A full height cob crosswall separates the former service room and the kitchen/bakehouse. Here the crossbeam and half-beams are chamfered with scroll stops. The rear fireplace has been somewhat altered. It is stone rubble and cob with a chamfered oak lintel with a scroll stop to right only. There is a large brick oven in the right side. The left end of the lintel rests on an oak post. Apparently it originally extended further left, across a large alcove which projected to rear. This was a large walk- in smoking chamber and during the 1976 renovation the alcove walls were stripped revealing heavy sooting and a flue into the main stack. One-bay roof over this kitchen/bakehouse section with a side-pegged jointed cruck with pegged dovetail shaped lap-jointed collar. This bay is smoke-blackened. However there is no evidence that the roof is any earlier than the kitchen stack. It would seem therefore that smoke leaked into the roof from the stack or smoking chamber. The original roof over the rest of the house is carried on side-pegged jointed cruck trusses. Source: Exeter Museums Archeological Field Unit archive includes a ground plan and long section made in 1976 by John R. L. Thorp.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

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