26 Rose Cottage and 27 Travellers Joy, Allerford, Holnicote Estate

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A pair of slated and rendered cottages, Two storey, slate roof over walls of rendered and limewashed rubble stone. Earliest of the three pairs of cottages built by the Acland family in Allerford around 1900.

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Pair of semi-detached two storey cottages with single ridge roof, gable ends and central axial stack. Lean-to on each end, two storey but lower, single pitch roofs with small hip turning corner on rear. Front lean-to porches in angle between main part of house and set-back and lean-tos. Each house has front and back gabled dormer. Corner stack on rear of each cottage. No 26 ( Rose Cottage) with rear lean-to, single pitch roof, no porch.
No. 27 ( Travellers Joy) smaller rear lean-to with single pitched roof, central rear porch butting against lean-to.
Roof of slate with collared ridge tiles. Cement fillet down short rear hips. Dormers as main roof. No. 26 rear lean-to asbestos slates. All walls except porches rendered and limewashed with black tar band. Stone rubble with brick quoins, jambs and arched lintels to openings on ground floor. Gables slate-hung, decorative, bottom corners of each slate mitred. Louvred vent to roof-space in each gable. Dormer gables also rendered, with wooden lintel pointed. Porches - weatherboarded, painted.
Built between 1876 and 1889 ( not shown on 1876 Holnicote Estate map but marked on 1889 OS Somerset sheet XXXIV.2, scale 1:2,500). On the 1841 Selworthy Tithe map and the 1876 map, a cottage and garden are shown on this site, the cottage set along the roadside is in the position of the present front garden. The houses are shown on the 1889 map with a lean-to on the rear, which was probably the wash-house with a set-pan copper using the corner flue. Little rear porches, such as the No. 27 one, are also marked, this suggests that the mullion window in that porch may have been retained and reused from the earlier demolished cottage. In 1969 porch of No. 26 removed and kitchen extended to its present size. Bathrooms inserted in both houses at this time.

Important Features:
External appearance with slate roof ( unusual in the area) and decorative slate hanging in the gables.
Roof construction - pegged common rafter roof.
No. 26 bedroom H fireplace ( late 19c), wood store with original cobbled floor ( late 19c).
No. 27 porch window, reused from another property, mullioned with ovolo moulding ( 17c).
Plank and batten doors.
Original casement windows and fixtures.
In a good state of repair.
Outbuildings:
Garden Store and Privy ( each property): Reflected pair of garden sheds with gabled roof, privies on the rear with roof at lesser pitch but continuous. Roof of double roman tiles with matching ridge over walls of waterworn rubble stone with brick quoins and jambs. Built at the same time as the cottages. Important features: external appearance, plank and batten doors, cobbled floors. In a fair state of repair.
27 Allerford:
Workshop: Late 20c wooden shed with a single pitch roof, butting onto south end of No. 27 Garden Store and Privy. Roof of felt with battens over weatherboard walls. In a good state of repair. [1]

Both cottages are described here together but recorded seperately in 2001 survey as:

26 (Rose Cottage), 115026: Northern half of the first pair of cottages built in Allerford between 1876 and 1889 (map evidence) by the eleventh baronet for agricultural workers. Two storey, built with one main living room and service rooms, one of these retains its 19c cobbled floor. Rear single storey lean-to, used as the kitchen. Central stack serving both cottages. Slate roof on pegged common rafters, walls rubble stone, rendered and limewashed, with decorative slate hanging in the gables. Pentice roof over the front door. Three bedrooms on the first floor. On the 1876 map a cottage is shown on the area that is now the front garden.

27 (Travellers Joy), 115027: The southern half of the agricultural cottages with reflected plan and elevations. The southern room has had the partitions removed and functions as the kitchen, which keeps the cottage warmer. Rear lean-to, with reused mullion window with ovolo moulding (17c) in the rear porch, otherwise as No.26, above. [2]

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