Via Enns, Allerford, Holnicote Estate

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A relatively plain village cottage. Possibly a one- down two-up craftsman's dwelling, important as very few of these small earlier buildings now survive. One and a half storey, triple V tiles clad roof over rubble stone walls.

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One and a half storey single pile two cell cottage with lean-to along side wall. This cottage butts onto and is angled against the north wall of No. 25 ( 115,025). The ridge is lower than that of No. 25 and is slightly offset to the west. Rear lateral stack. Two storey gabled rear wing with south lean- to extension between house and wing. Two lean-to extensions along north wall of house and wing, the roof over the pump house becomes double-pitched in front of the house, and is continuous over outhouse/ store. Front fenestration irregular with two raked dormers.
Roof of cottage and wing triple vee tiles with collared ridge tiles. Outhouse/ store double roman tiles. Walls of house rendered at front and limewashed, north gable with small blocks of red sandstone, verges pushed out with present gable higher. Brick jambs down rear window of living room. Small front garden bounded by low wall with waterworn boulders set vertically along the top, continues along No. 25. Rear wing rubble stone with brick quoins, jambs and arches over windows. Lean-to rendered, pentice over window.
The beams with small chamfers and their respective stops suggest 17c, but may run into the early 18c. The rear lateral fireplace does not seem to have had an oven, but it is blocked in and the rear plastered, any evidence is hidden. Possibly a single room cottage, with two first floor rooms, when built. If so it is a rare survival of a small cottage probably built for a craftsman or an artisan. Rear wing added late 19c. Bathroom added 1969.
Important Features:
External appearance.
Blocked open fireplace and stack ( 17c/18c).
Beams in living room ( 17c/18c).
Pump house with pump partially surviving.
19c leaded light windows.
In a generally good state of repair.
Outbuildings:
Wash House, now pump house: Single cell structure on the northwest corner of the house, with a single pitch roof lean-to on the cottage's north wall, but the part set forward of the front of the house with double pitch roof. The latter is supported on two timbers on low walls, with a tiebeam between them. The building is enclosed on three sides with the front open to the road through Allerford village. Roof of double roman tiles with inverted V-ridge tiles where roof double-pitched. North wall low rubble stone supporting timber post and solid half-round timber trellis. West ( front) open, with heavy slightly cranked round timber resting on two uprights, the south one set on the garden wall. Rest rubble stone.
A lift-pump survives minus is cap and pumping arm. A water trough, with plug hole in the west end is set against the house wall. It is probably cut from one piece of stone. A pipe is set against the house wall, the tap is now missing but used to direct the water into the trough.
Possibly on the 1889 O.S. Somerset sheet XXXIV.2, definitely shown in its present form with the roof extending near the road than does the front elevation of the house. It seems to have been the village wash-house in the late 19c and early 20c, with pump, trough and roof to give shelter. Important features: rustic appearance with heavy roundwood timbers and trellis, pump, water trough, cobbled floor. In a fair state of repair.
Garden Store and Lavatory: Single storey gable-ended building continuous with similar provision for cottage No.25. The Garden Store faces the rear of the house, with Lavatory on the rear wall, facing north and with catslide roof. Roof of double roman tiles with black glazed plain ridge tiles over walls of roughly coursed rubble stone, with squared quoins and jambs. Probably built between 1876 ( they are not shown on the Holnicote Estate map of this date) and 1889 ( they are shown on the O.S. Somerset sheet XXXIV.2). Provided by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, XIth baronet, as part of his programme of repair and updating of the cottages on the estate. Important feature: part of the late 19c provision for the cottages. In a fair state of repair, some tiles are dropping from the eaves on the front pitch.

The house was recorded as part of the Holnicote Estate Survey in 2001 and is described as 'small one room and passage cottage near the centre of Allerford, with site 115025 butting onto the south wall. Large external rear stack and thick, possibly medieval, rear wall. Lean-tos on the north end and rear of the stack are partly supported by the rear one and a half storey wing. 17c beam in the main room with scroll stops, it is possible this was once part of a larger three room and cross-passage house. Roof tiled, walls local rubble stone, front elevation rendered and limewashed. Three bedrooms on the first floor.
On the northwest corner is a tiled and roundwood shelter over the village pump hence the name of the cottage.' [2]

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