Church Cottage
CHURCH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097226
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097226
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Manaton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 74958 81297
Details
MANATON MANATON SX 78 SW 4/62 - Church Cottage (formerly 23.8.55 listed as part of Ivy Cottage) GV II House, formerly Church house. Early C16 probably remodelled in C18. Modernised late C20. Granite rubble walls with large dressed granite quoins. South gable wall rendered. Original plan much altered, layout of C18 plan probably remains: 2-room and central stair hall, each room heated by end stacks. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-window front range. 3-light C20 casements with glazing bars probably in C18 openings with squared timber lintels. First floor centre is a 2-light casement. Central doorway with C20 plank door with timber lintel. C20 thatched rustic wooden porch. Rear facade has asymmetrical fenestration, mostly disposed to the right-hand end. Right-hand first floor has early C16 2-light granite-framed mullion window with 4- centred arched heads, hollow chamfered with recessed spandrels, possibly re-set. 2 reconstituted concrete mullion windows later C20 and 3 other smaller windows. Rear wall possibly not rebuilt to same extent as front one. Interior much altered but contains 3 roughly dressed cross beams, 2 in right-hand ground floor room. The one nearest the gable end rests on stone corbel at either end and has run-out stops and chamfer both sides, possibly re-used. C18 8-bay roof consisting of straight principals morticed at apex with straight collars, lapped and pegged to principals. Walter Besant wrote some of his novels here. Although altered in C18, this is an interesting example of a Church house in a very important setting. Church house granted by deed dated 11 November 1597 to John Whiddon Sen., and others for ever. The last trust deed is dated 1809. As the house became dilapidated it was pulled down and then re-built as a poor-house at the expense of the parish Source: G W Copeland, Devonshire Church-Houses part VI, Trans. Devonshire Association Vol.XCVIII - 1966.
Listing NGR: SX7496281298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84995
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 98, (1963)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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