MSO10568 - Wychanger Cottage, Luccombe (Building)

Cottage. C17, enlarged C19. Roughcast over rubble, thatched roof half hipped to left, brick stack right gable end, large lateral stack to left of entrance with adjoining full height projection. Plan: probably 2 cell and cross passage, enlarged with full height bay beside stack and single bay addition left. Two storeys, first floor C19 2-light ogee headed leaded casement left of stack, 2-light casement extended with glazed gabled top, end bay left unlit, ground floor two C20 2-light casements left and one right of plank door adjoining stack with tiny peaked lancet probably ventilation for curing chamber, 3 steps to door, single storey one bay C20 lean-to addition on right return. Interior: not seen. (Photograph in NMR). [1] English Heritage Listed Building Number: 265338. First Listed on 05/06/1985. [2] 2-cell Cross passage plan. Stone, Render, roughcast and pebbledash walls. Half-hipped roof [3] The building was surveyed by the National Trust in 1997. It is described as "a late medieval open hall house, with original ground floor plan surviving, also a smoke-blackened jointed cruck truss. A good unspoiled example, the walls have not been raised, and the surviving features show clearly the different phases of the development of the cottage." [4] In the direction of Wootton Courtenay and adjoining the turning to Wychanger is Wychanger Cottage, another 15th century former open hall house with smoke-blackened truss, but with a stack added and ceiled in the 17th century. There is an early 19th century enlargement of full-height bay adjoining the stack and a single bay addition to the left. [5] The building was visited in May 2012 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. It received a BAR score of 6. [6] The building is depicted on the 2020 MasterMap data and labelled "Wychanger Cottage". [7] The building is mentioned in the 2018 Conservation Area Appraisal for Luccombe. [8] The cottage was assessed as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor’s Listed Buildings 2018-19, receiving a BAR score of 6. [9]