Woodside (20), Allerford, Holnicote Estate

Summary

Small traditional late 16c/ 17c cottage, with one surviving beam and the large front stack giving clues to its origin. One and a half storey, roof of triple V tiles over rubble stone walls.

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Two cell single pile one and a half storey cottage, butting onto No. 19 ( 115,019) at the northeast end and angled to it. External passage between two cottages on ground floor, bedroom extends over it on first floor. Single ridge roof, gabled ended, with raked dormer in both front and back, the front pitch is longer than that of the rear. Lean-to on rear elevation, small porch over front door with pentice roof supported by brackets.
Two partially external front stacks, with tall rounded uppers. Rear stack also partially external with square upper.
The passage between the two cottages is commonly known as the 'drang'.
Gulley runs down along front of house and under step, needs clearing of weed.
Roof of house triple V tiles with rounded ridge tiles, rest double roman tiles. Walls of rubble stone, mainly waterworn, very roughly coursed on front and rear elevations, random on side with brick quoins and jambs of ground floor windows, probably late 19c when house roofed with tiles. Short length of front ground floor wall extended forward 0.25m, with a blocked window in it, covered with a single row of double roman tiles. Both gable and windows with pentices, first floor flat red tiles, ground floor piece of wood. Segmental stone arch over rear ground floor window, otherwise wood lintels. Window sills concrete on ground floor windows, wood on first floor.
Late 16c/ 17c two-room cottage built onto southwest wall of No. 19 Hillview, with open fireplace in living room and probably two beams also in living room, the large front chimney is also likely to be original, it fits in with the general pattern of 16c/17c houses in the area. In the late 18c/ early 19c major renovations included retimbering of roof and replacement of windows with present mullioned leaded casements. Roof still thatched, probably hipped or half-hipped. Front corner stack added so that northeast room heated. Square beam in living room probably replaced original. Rear lean to added early/ mid 19c, probably as scullery and wash-house. In the late 19c/ early 20c the roof tiled, end wall possibly rebuilt as a gable, with brick quoins. Rear stack added for Rayburn mid 20c.
Important Features:
External appearance with front stacks and tall round uppers.
Blocked, open fireplace in living room and cast iron early 20c art nouveau style fireplace in downstairs bedroom.
Early 19c mullioned leaded windows.
In a generally good state of repair, although there are potential problems of moisture penetration where the rear pitch of the roof is angled to the adjoining cottage ( Hillview).

Outbuildings:
Coalshed, Privy and Garden Store: Single storey row of three small outbuildings, originally at the bottom of the garden, the latter now extends further to the southeast. Single ridge gable- ended roof. Roof of double roman tiles with matching ridge, one tile in back pitch broken. Roof almost entirely covered with ivy which needs killing. Walls well built with red sandstone, roughly squared and coursed. Larger squared blocks in jambs and quoins. Central entrance ( to privy) with stone jambs curved in to give recessed doorway, curves echoed inside. Back particularly is smothered with ivy. Shown on the 1889 OS Somerset sheet XXXIV.2 but not indicated on the 1876 Holnicote Estate map. This little row of outhouses was probably erected by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, XIth baronet, after the 1876 survey had shown him the needs of the Estate. The detail of the recessed central door with its curved stone jambs is particularly good. It is just possible it was originally thatched as there are half-hips at each gable end, but this may have been a constructional detail. Important features: external appearance with curved jambs to recessed central doors on coalshed and privy, cobbled floors in coalshed and garden store. In a fair state of repair - the doors badly need attention and the coalshed door is rotting at the bottom. The worst problem however, is the ivy which is nearly all over the building and needs to be killed so that it will drop off.

Shed, now disused: Mid 20c garden shed, roof single pitch corrugated iron over weatherboarded walls. In a poor state of repair. [1]

Two cell cottage with cross-passage, probably built onto cottage site 115019 [MNA138888]. Distinctive façade with two external stacks, shouldered with rounded uppers, and pentice roof over the front door. Blocked window between the west stack and the south west corner. Rear and most of south west gable wall rebuilt, roof replaced in first half of the 19c, tiled c.1900. Rear lean-to. With site 115019 provides an attractive group on the road that led to Allerford Farm (site 115181/MNA141352) which was destroyed c.1900. [2]

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