| Summary: | Halls and Halls Cottage. Two cottages. Late 17th century with early 19th century refurbishment; circa 1970 extension. Plastered cob on large pebble foundations; stacks apparently rebuilt with 19th century brick; corrugated iron roof (formerly thatch), slate to the extension and outshot. Two adjoining cottages under a continuous gable-ended roof facing west.
Halls is the two-room cottage on the right (southern) end, the inner room served by an axial stack and the outer room by a slightly projecting (early19th century replacement) end stack.
Halls Cottage is the one-room cottage on the left (northern) end with an end stack and a 20th century single storey extension on the end but recessed from the front. Along the rear of both cottages is a continuous secondary slate-roofed outshot.
Main block is two storeys. The main block has an overall regular but not symmetrical four-window front of late 19th and 20th century casements with glazing bars, three to Halls and one to Halls Cottage. Halls has a 20th century flat-roofed porch in front of its central doorway. The left end of the main block (Halls Cottage) appears to have been rebuilt in plastered brick or stone rubble at some time since the wall narrows in thickness abruptly there and in order to keep the same eaves it corbels out at the top with a pair of broad ovolo mouldings. The original doorway to Halls Cottage was probably at the left end but circa 1970 was moved to the end wall through a porch in front of the contemporary extension.
Interior. In Halls the inner room fireplace is blocked and the outer room fireplace is early 19th century with the rebuilt stack. The inner room has a 17th century axial beam, soffit-chamfered with one scroll stop left whilst the outer room has a plain soffit-chamfered crossbeam. The roof structure was replaced circa 1930. In Halls Cottage the fireplace is blocked by a 20th century grate and the late 17th century crossbeam has a plain soffit
chamfer. The roof here was not inspected. Despite 19th and 20th century alterations the basic form of the 17th century cottages remain and they are an attractive pair. |
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