Littleholm Pound Cottages
LITTLEHOLM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097366
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Littleholm Pound Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLEHOLM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097366
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Littleholm Pound Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLEHOLM
- Statutory Address 2:
- POUND COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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:
- LITTLEHOLM
- Statutory Address:
- POUND COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lustleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 78536 81239
Details
LUSTLEIGH SX 7881
9/192 Littleholm (1 and 2 Pound Cottages) - (formerly listed as Pound Cottages 23.8.55 Littleholm Pound Cottages and Cottage adjoining Littleholm) GV II
House. C16 with later additions. Roughcast stone, probably with some cob. Thatched roof, half-hipped. Granite ashlar double stack, with tapered top having a projecting stone course below it, on ridge off-centre to left. 3-room plan, probably with original hall in centre and heated parlour to left; added lean-to in front of lower right-hand end.. The house has a double stack at the upper end of the hall, a rare arrangement in Devon. 3 windows wide. Windows all have small- paned wood casements. Original front door to right, next to added lean-to, has 5 panelled early C18 oak door with raised-and-fielded ovolo-moulded panels; bead- moulded door-frame with old iron tethering ring. C20 wood porch. In west gable a doorway with old plank door and C20 wooden porch. Interior: former hall has large open fireplace with large granite corbel on left side; it supports a chamfered wood lintel with run-out stops, probably a C17 replacement. On right side a very large oven with granite sides and dcmed brick roof. Opening has granite frame with curved top, and in front of it is a shallow granite shelf; opening has an old, detachable wrought iron door with 2 handles and with one foot surviving. To right of fireplace a staircase fitted into a curve in the wall; at its foot the chamfered wood jambs of an early door frame. Upper floor beam is chamfered with big convex stops. Lower room, to right, has chamfered beam with step-stops. It runs over a stud-and-panel screen with studs, chamfered at the front and plain at the rear; in it is a doorway with cranked head. Former parlour has chamfered beam; C20 fireplace. Roof-timbers plastered in, but at the division between hall and lower room one end of a tie beam truss is exposed. In late C19 upper room at left-hand end is known to have been used as a Gospel Hall by the Plymouth Brethren, with external access from higher ground at the rear.
Listing NGR: SX7853681253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84633
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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