Local List: White Rock Cottage and associated cold store and building, Ashcombe, Simonsbath

White Rock Cottage is one of the earliest cottages built at Simonsbath by John Knight possibly built as a cottage ornee to house a head gardener for Simonsbath House. By 1852 it may have been housing two families. A school was added to the complex in 1857, which became a primary school in 1958 and closed in 1970. Associated buildings used as a gardeners tool shed and a cold house lie immediately to the SW and NW of the cottage and are also likely to date to the 1820s / 1830s. Together this group of buildings appear to have formed a focal point of the designed garden landscape at Ashcombe. Strong association with the Knight estate. Served as a school for the wider community, and as an outdoor education facility. Now in use by a local Trust as a community centre.