The images shared here are close-ups of some of the building/architectural details at Hoar Oak Cottage which help show how the cottage was built and altered over the years. They show how local building materials were pressed into use and how new openings, doors etc were ‘bodged’ together making use of what was to hand. Carrying materials out to the cottage – whether in the 1800s or the 21st century was no easy task – and its understandable a ‘make do’ attitude would come into play. The result is some fascinating heritage architectural features, many of which can still be seen on the site.
Window circa 2015.
Image of window created in north elevation by creating an opening in the stonework and facing it with a mixture of red bricks and building stones on the sides, a slate lintel over the top and a thick (concrete?) slab to form the base.
Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.2 and 2.C (Hi res and compressed jpeg available)
Window in dairy lean-to on north elevation. 2016
Image of window showing jambs built of house bricks and the lintel is a single piece of slate. Window frames still in place at 2016.
Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.3 (Hi res and compressed jpeg available)
Lintel, door jamb, tarred stone block.
Image showing how the lintel at the top of the door frame was replaced, during the stabilisation works, with a single oak beam to provide support for whatever amount of wall was to be left above. The original lintel was timber and very degraded.
Note that parts of the original jambs are still visible in the lower half of both the right and left hand side of the door opening.
Note the stone above and to the right hand side of the lintel is still heavily painted with black tar – indicating this may well have been an external stone block re-used during the re-building in 2010s of this part of the wall.
Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.1.C (Hi res and compressed jpeg available)
External casing of clome oven.
A clome oven was built into the upper right corner of the main fire place by locating it on the external face of the chimney stack, supporting it at the correct height, securing it in place with stone blocks built around the curved clome oven. The support structure was then roofed with slates cut to form a semi-circle. The addition of a clome oven is thought to during the early 1800s when Charles and Elizabeth Vellacott lived in the cottage.
Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.4 (Hi res and compressed jpeg available)
2012 Roof
View of roof, summer 2012, showing destruction due to winter weather. View from north showing main roof and dairy roof. The image shows how the roof was de-slated and replaced with corrugated iron sheets which, especially over the dairy, became overgrown with moss and weakened and subject to damage in bad winter weather due to the weight of snow etc.
Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.5 and 5.C (Hi res and compressed jpeg available)
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2012 Roof View of roof, summer 2016, showing destruction due to winter weather. View from northeast. See also Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.5 and 5.C Original slate roof tiles still visible on small roofed section of chimney stack. Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.6 and 6.C (Hi res and compressed jpeg available) |
West Elevation 2016: View of west elevation showing more details of dairy window seen in Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.3 (above) and the clome oven built into chimney stack as seen in Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.4 (above). Also shows chimney stack lowered and capped as part of the stabilisation works. Hi res and compressed jpeg available.
Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.7.C
2011/2012 Chimney. During stabilisation works a substantive fall of bricks/stones required the removal of the iron range.
Photos left to right – Archive Refs: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.14.2/14.3 and 14.4
The chimney breast was restored to an original open hearth. In the top right corner a clome oven was discovered with the makers marks showing it came from Brannon Pottery in Barnstaple.
Photos: Archive Refs: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.14.4/14.5 Thanks to http://(zmbphotography.co.uk) HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.14.7 Jim Baldwin
The clome oven was believed to have been built into the chimney around 1816/1818 when the Vellacotts first used Hoar Oak cott as a permanent home. More info on: https://hoaroakcottage.org/vellacotts-2/. The transportable oven was taken up onto the moor and fixed into the chimney internally and externally.
Archive Refs: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.14.6 and .8
2010: Porch/Scullery. Located on south elevation, slate roof, the front porch which doubled as a scullery with sink inside. See HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.10 for image of sink inside porch/scullery.
Archive Ref: HOC.Place.RecordPhotos.ArchDetails.9.C 2010 Porch/“Scullery”