Coxen, Long Orchard

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SY 08 SW
5/63

EAST BUDLEIGH
Knowle
DALDITCH LANE
Coxen, Long Orchard

3.12.82

II*
House. 1911 by Ernest Gimson for Basil Young, service block and kitchen rearranged and modernised circa 1980. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings and internal walls of solid brick; and stone rubble brick stacks with tall stone ashlar chimney shafts; thatch roof.

Vernacular Revival Arts and Crafts Movement house with irregular plan facing west. Three room main block with single room rear block at right angles near the right (southern) end and a service block (looking like a stable block) at right angles in front of the left (northern) end. In fact this service block was originally wood and coal store and was converted to a kitchen circa 1980. The original kitchen was the left (northern) room of the main block. Stacks between main and service wing, between main and rear block, and rear block has projecting end stack.

Main block is two storeys with attics, rear block is two storeys, and service wing is single story with attics. Nearly symmetrical two-window front. All the windows are timber-framed casements with slender mullions and containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The largest are those on the ground floor. The first floor windows are half dormers and the attics are small dormers, all flat-topped with the thatch rising steeply round. Central Tudor-style panelled door and a tiny single light window above. All the blocks are gable-ended and the roofs are tall with steep pitches. The inner face of the lower service wing has two casements with thatch eyebrows over and a stable type door to left.

Rear elevations in same style as front. Hood to rear doorway is a slab of slate across the angle of the main and rear blocks.

All around the house are original timber gutters supported on slender wrought iron brackets. Interior based on the local vernacular tradition has exposed carpentry and joinery detail. From the end of the service block a tall plastered wall with thatch coping curves forward terminating in an octagonal pavilion with conical thatch roof.

This is a particularly good example of a Vernacular Revival style house from the Arts and Crafts Movement. Local craftsmen were employed and encouraged to revive traditional skills. It is the only Gimson house retaining its thatch. Gimson's furniture was removed in the 1960s.

Listing NGR: SY0465583126

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Sources

Books and journals
Hoare, G, Pyne, G, The Barn Exmouth and Coxen Budleigh Salterton Two Arts and Crafts Houses, (1978)

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