The Cottage, Allerford, Holnicote Estate

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Two storey 17c/18c single pile three bay cottage. Roof of triple V tiles over walls of rubble stone. Apparent buttress on south end of wall is the remains of an older, possibly medieval house.

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Two storey single pile three bay cottage, front with two raked dormers and lean-to porch. Two ground floor windows have segmental stone arches. Apparent buttress on south end of wall is the remains of an older, possibly medieval house. Gable of side wall recessed and rendered. No 24 butts onto the north-end with lower ridge, and is set slightly forward. To the rear the main building has a raked dormer, there is a two storey late Victorian wing which is gable-ended with a northeast corner stack. Rear stack on original cottage was external but now enclosed by wing and lean-to. Roof pitch of wing extends down over passage, then runs at a slighter angle over the rest of the lean-to.
Triple-V tile roof with collared ridge tiles. Extra row of tiles over built-up south gable ( over top half of pitch and on front). Also on porch and stump of south wall extending to west. Walls of house rubble stone, end wall butts further forward and back than present house, also angled. Masonry small, mostly waterworn stone. Render on north side of south wall suggests that this was possibly the end wall of a building extending to the south removed in the 18c/19c, and that the cottage was built against this wall. This putative building may be the one numbered 144 on the Selworthy Tithe map. Blocked window in the south ( side) wall. South gable rendered. Small area of north gable visible above roof No. 24 Allerford ( 115,024) is boarded over brick. Wing of rubble stone, mostly red sandstone, with brick quoins, jambs and arches over the windows.
Cottage on site 17c/18c, possibly with further building to the south, as the thick south wall has render on its north side where it looks like a southwest corner buttress. Possibly rebuilt late 18c/ early 19c, the walls are only 0.4m thick, there are no beams though the ceilings are not high. Probably 2-roomed, with living room partitioned into two and the present front door opening directly into the main room with the rear central fireplace the south room smaller and unheated. It is not clear which way the blocked window in the south wall faced. Rear wing added late 19c. Bathroom and larder built as lean-tos mid 20c.
Important Features:
External appearance with garden wall.
Blocked open fireplace and rear lateral stack.
19c bedroom fireplace ( room I).
19c leaded light windows.
In a good state of repair.
Outbuildings:
Garden Store and Privy, now garden store, old privy and woodshed: Small single storey two cell building with gable-ended roof, built with Garden Store and Lavatory of No. 24 Allerford ( 115,024). Woodshed added on rear roof continuing down over it, in angle between the rear of Garden Store and No. 24 Allerford's Lavatory. Roof of double roman tiles with plain black glazed ridge tiles. Walls of rubble stone, soft red sandstone and harder pieces of green and purple stone. Crack in south end of west wall, and soft sandstone in quoin badly weathered. East and south sides of woodshed of split and round timbers on frame. Built between 1876 and 1889 as part of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland's provision for the cottages, in his programme of repair and modernisation of the estate. ( Holnicote Estate map 1876 and 1889 O.S. Somerset sheet XXXIV.2, scale 1:2,500). Woodshed was probably added early/ mid 20c. Important features: Garden Store and Privy as late 19c provision for cottage. In a poor state of repair, doors rotting at bottom. Woodshed with leak in roof.

The cotage was recorded as part of the Holnicote Estate Survey in 2001 and is described as 'small traditional cottage butting onto site 115024 at the north end, one and a half storey, with one room and a passage on the ground floor. The south wall is very thick, with a blocked window in it, and seems to be the remnant of a medieval house as it is 80-90 cms thick. The front and rear walls are only half that width. Roof structure first half 19c, for thatch, since adapted for tiles (c.1900). Rear external stack. Rear single cell wing, as site 115024, and rear single storey lean-tos. Three bedrooms on first floor.' [2]

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