Listed Building: RED DEER COTTAGE (1215411)

TWITCHEN SS 7830-7930 17/218 Red Deer Cottage - GV II House, latterly divided. Mid-C17 with late C20 alterations. Painted stone rubble to front and sides, mainly rendered cob to rear. Gable-ended asbestos-slate roof, formerly thatched. Rendered stone stacks with weatherings. Plan: C17 three-room plan, facing south. End rooms with integral end stacks, and unheated central room. Central entrance and straight staircase. House latterly divided (see blocked front doorway). Eaves raised in C20. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrically-fenestrated front with 4 windows to first floor and 3 to ground floor; mainly C18 three-light wooden casements (some C20 replacements), with metal opening lights. C20 leading. Right-hand ground-floor window possibly C17 (see chamfered mullions inside). C20 stable-type door between first and second windows from left, with C19 gabled porch on shaped brackets. C20 two-light wooden casement to right of door replaces former doorway (see straight joints below). Strip buttress to right-hand end of front wall (possibly the result of partial rebuilding). Semi- circular bread oven with slated top to right-hand gable end. Interior: C17 chamfered cross beam in right-hand ground-floor room with stepped runout stops. C17 open stone fireplace to right-hand end has chamfered wooden lintel with stepped runout stops and bread oven. Probably C17 front window with mullions chamfered internally. Left-hand ground-floor room with adzed rough spine beam and wall beam to rear. Window seat to front wall. Open stone fireplace to left with chamfered wooden lintel and bread oven with C19 cast-iron door. Roofspace not inspected. The present owner (October 1987) reports that before the C20 alterations the front wall consisted of rubble to ground floor and cob to first floor with rubble piers supporting ends of roof trusses. Listing NGR: SS7889630484