Craig's Cottages
CRAIG'S COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097575
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Craig's Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- CRAIG'S COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097575
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Craig's Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRAIG'S COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3
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:
- CRAIG'S COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sowton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 97467 91017
Details
SOWTON BISHOP'S CLYST SX 99 SE 1/33 Nos. 1, 2 & 3 Craig's Cottages -
- II
Row of 3 cottages set well back from the village street. Late-C16 house remodelled in the C17, with later alterations. Roughcast cob on stone footings; gabled end synthetic slate roof. The original plan is not known; it is now a 4-room house in a straight block; one axial and end stacks with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: 7-window range; all windows (5 to ground floor) and the 3 doors are late- C20. Rear: of no. 3 (the right-hand cottage) has a 3-light timber window, C17, with cyma recta surround, and ovolo moulded jambs and mullions. Interior: the roof extends the entire length of the row and is the earliest part of the building : 2 jointed crucks visible in no. 3 (there are apparently two others in nos. 1 and 2), principals chamfered, morticed and pegged at apex, the collars half-dovetailed. Principal ground floor room of no. 3 with one and two half beams, chamfered with scroll stops; another similar ceiling beam in the chamber above this room. Heavitree stone fireplace served by axial stack. Other internal features noticed by Dr Alcock, together with a moulded wall plate, no longer survive. N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans.Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), pp. 220-1; figs.15, 18; plate 18.
Listing NGR: SX9746791017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86168
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 94, (1962)
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 94, (1962)
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 94, (1962), 220-1
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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