Thorverton : Hillbrook Cottage on Jericho Street
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Thorverton : Hillbrook Cottage on Jericho Street
Image: © Lewis Clarke Taken: 22 Sep 2012
SS 90 SW THORVERTON JERICHO STREET (north side), Thorverton 8/143 Hillbrook 5.4.66 GV II Cottage. C17 with some later C20 rebuilding at left end and C20 internal alterations. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings ; thatched roof with plain ridge gabled at left end, asbestos slates to rear of ridge; left end stack with brick shaft, blocked right end stack. The left end wall and short sections of the return wall have been rebuilt in concrete block after the original wall collapsed. The present plan is single depth, 2 rooms wide the larger heated room to the left, the smaller right hand room was heated but the stack is blocked. It is likely that Hillbrook was forerly 1 property with Rose Cottage (q.v.) adjoining at the right, but the exact relationship between the 2 buildings and the early plan is no longer clear. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window front with regular fenestration and front door to right. 2 ground floor 2-light small pane timber casements, first floort C20 iron casements. Interior The larger room, to the left, has a chamfered step-stopped crossbeam. The right hand room has a chamfered scroll-stopped crossbeam against the right hand wall.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.809466
Longitude
-3.52485