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Toll Cottage and Porch Cottage

Porch Cottage, 5, High Street, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 7DU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097537
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: Toll Cottage and Porch Cottage
Statutory Address:: Porch Cottage, 5, High Street, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 7DU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097537
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: Toll Cottage and Porch Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Porch Cottage, 5, High Street, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 7DU
Statutory Address 2:: Toll Cottage, 3, High Street, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 7DU

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Porch Cottage, 5, High Street, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 7DU
Statutory Address:: Toll Cottage, 3, High Street, East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 7DU

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: East Budleigh
National Grid Reference:: SY 06606 84777

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 January 2024 to update the name and, address, amend description due to change of building use and to reformat the text to current standards.

SY 0684 8/78

EAST BUDLEIGH HIGH STREET (west side) No 3 Toll Cottage and No.5 Porch Cottage

(Formerly listed as No.5, HIGH STREET)

GV II Two cottages, converted into single dwelling by time of listing, later subdivided. Parts may have C16 origins, rearranged as cottages probably in late C17 or early C18, refurbished in late C19, united to form a single cottage in C20. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with late C19 brick and C19 chimney pots; thatch roof. Rear brick outshot with slate roof.

A pair of cottages facing east onto High Street. The left (southern) cottage has a one-room plan with an end stack. The right cottage has a two-room plan with a central axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces and front lobby entrance. The right room here maybe once have been the service end room of a C16 three-room-and- through-passage plan house; the rest of that house now occupied by adjoining Maytree Cottage (q.v.). Both cottages have tight winder stairs rising to rear of the stacks and C19 service outshots across the rear.

Two storeys. Regular three-window front; one to the left cottage and a symmetrical two window arrangement to the right cottage. At the left end there is a C19 horizontal sliding twelve-pane sash and a plank door to right. To right of this two late C19-early C20 casements with glazing bars, one either side of a C19 five-fielded panel door. Directly above each of these windows is a C19 three-light casement containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The roof is gable-ended to left and runs continuously with that over adjoining Maytree Cottage (q.v) to right. High up on the wall at the left end there is a small plaque which records the demolition in 1977 of a toll house with unusually fine architectural detail which formerly stood in front here.

Interior is largely the result of the C19 refurbishment although this was probably superficial. All the fireplaces are blocked by C19 and C20 grates and little structural detail is exposed. A single axial beam is exposed in the left end room. It has a neat soffit chamfer; probably late C17-early C18. The roof space is inaccessible and the lower parts of the pinicpals which do show are plastered over. Nevertheless they indicate a roof of A-frame trusses. Some of the plaster is backed onto water reeds rather than wooden lathes. This type of plaster is usually C17 but could be later. Nos.3 and 5 High Street only hints at a C17 date. However the adjoining Maytree Cottage (q.v.) has C16 features and it seems likely that the right end room here at least belonged to that house. Possibly the row of cottages were made by dividing up and extending a large early house. If so C16 and C17 features may be hidden here in Nos 3 and 5.

The cottages are one of a group of attractive and varied outbuildings, most of them listed, which line High Street as it rises to the Church Of All Saints (q.v)

Listing NGR: SY0660684774

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 86278
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.