3, 4 AND 5, SOWTON LANE
3, 4 AND 5, SOWTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097580
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 3, 4 AND 5, SOWTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 3, 4 AND 5, SOWTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097580
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 3, 4 AND 5, SOWTON LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, 4 AND 5, SOWTON LANE
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:
- 3, 4 AND 5, SOWTON LANE
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 97809 92817
Details
SOWTON SOWTON LANE (west side) SX 99 SE 1/47 Nos. 3, 4 and 5 -
- II
3 cottages, formerly a single farmhouse. Earlv C17. remodelled and partially rebuilt in the C18, with C20 additions. Front wall and rear wing of brick, the right hand end and rear wall of roughcast cob on Heavitree stone footings: slate gabled-end roof. A 3-room plan house; the position of the original main entranceis uncertain, it was possibly a baffle-entry, the axial stack heating both the service end to the right and the hall to the left, with a stair to the rear of the stack opposite the entrance. Alternatively the entrance could have been between the hall and the left-hand room; a screen (now covered) between these rooms may mark an original through passage. If this last position is that of the original entrance, the hall stack would have been at the opposite end of the room tn the passage, which is also unusual in Devon. Left-hand external end stack. There is an C18 wing to the rear of the left-hand room. 2 storeys. Front: 4-window range: 3-light casement windows to first floor. with a later single light window in addition. No. 5 has a very unusual, and presumably C18, doorway, with a wide shouldered arch in brick. 3-light casement window to the left of this. Large C20 leanto porches to nos. 3 and 4. Extensive additions, all late C20, to the rear. Interior: the plank and muntin screen to no. 5 (noted by Dr Alcock) has been covered over. Nos. 3 and 4 not inspected : Dr Alcock notes a chamfered ceiling beam to the hall with scroll stops, and a chamfered fireplace lintel. with complex moulded jambs. The lintel and the beam above it are curved at the centre. N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans. Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), pp. 210-11: figs. 14 (plan) and 15 (hall fireplace): plate 13.
Listing NGR: SX9780992817
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86183
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 94, (1962), 210-11
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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