Mayes Cottage, 31 Allerford, Allerford, Holnicote Estate

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Northern cottage of a terrace of three, probably a late 17c/18c small three room and cross-passage house, with the inner room ( at the north-west end) removed. One and a half storey, triple V tile roof over walls of random stone.

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One and a half storey double-fronted single pile cottage with central front door and pentice porch, butting onto 32 Allerford on the left side. Roof continuous with three raked dormers in the front and two steeply raked in the rear pitch, which is steeper than that of Number 32, though flattened on the north side of the stack. Gable end over side elevation. Short stub yard wall with plaster on suggests the present end wall is inserted and the building truncated. Internal corner stack on left ( south) of front elevation and large external stack on north end of rear wall, with its north side very rough and angling out slightly from the side wall. Workshop butts onto this, with a lean-to rear porch south of it.

Triple 'V' tile roof with collared ridge tiles. Flashing next to Number 32 painted. Front porch on triangular brackets. Rear porch double roman tiles, four of glass. Slate flashing with two missing against the house.
Front wall rendered and limewashed, black tar band. Holes for damp course treatment visible. Side and rear smallish waterworn stone set randomly but roughly squared in quoins and jambs. Ground floor windows with segmental stone arches, the back door and kitchen window are under one arch. Front openings with timber lintels, wooden window sills. Front first floor windows raised. Sides of dormers boarded. Rear porch supported in wall and by a post on a concrete base.
Very little in the way of datable features remain. The open fireplace in kitchen/ living room may have a chamfered and stopped lintel, this is obscured at present. The thickness of the front wall and the size of the rear lateral stack suggest the 17c and a three room cross-passage house. In the early 19c leaded light windows inserted, the north-west room may have been demolished at this time and the present north-west wall inserted. The evidence is clear for the continuation of the front wall, and that the stack was not built with its present awkward shape on the north-west end. The bathroom was inserted in the mid-20c and Rayburn in the open fireplace of kitchen/ living room.
Important Features:
External appearance.
Kitchen/ living room open fireplace.
Sitting room and bedroom E cast iron fireplaces.
Doors, plank and batten.
Upper of rear stack cracked near top.
Outbuildings:
Workshop: Small single storey gable ended outbuilding butting onto rear of stack. Roof of double roman tiles with matching ridge over rubble stone walls. On 1889 O.S. Somerset Sheet XXXIV.2, Scale 1:2,500 and subsequent maps. Important feature: external appearance. In a good state of repair.
Wash House, now store: Built onto continuation of south-west garden wall ( garden did continue to north-west but the Reading Room was built in it. Gable ended. Roof of pantiles with ridge tiles, barge boards on north-east gable. Rubble stone walls. Shown on 1889 O.S. Somerset Sheet XXXIV.2, Scale 1:2,500, and subsequent maps. Possibly early 19c, with a re-used door. Important features: external appearance, 18c door, remnants of early 19c window. In a fair state of repair.
Privy: Small single cell structure built onto west garden wall, with lean-to roof. Roof of double roman tiles over walls of rubble stone and board. On 1889 O.S. Somerset Sheet XXXIV.2, Scale 1:2,500, not on 1903 2nd edition, but on 1929 revised 2nd edition. Probably omitted from 1903 map. In a fair state of repair.

Mayes cottage (No.31) was recorded in 2001 as part of the Holnicote Estate Survey: Most northerly of a terrace of three cottages, probably once a small three room cross-passage house but at least one room at the north end has been removed. Now two rooms with a central passage in plan, there is a large rear stack and a small internal stack in the front wall. The building butts onto site 115032, which is earlier. There are three bedrooms on the first floor, the roof structure is probably first half 19c, the tiles replacing thatch around 1900. [2]

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