Straithead Cottage
STRAITHEAD COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097774
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Straithead Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- STRAITHEAD COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/04601/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097774
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Straithead Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRAITHEAD COTTAGE
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:
- STRAITHEAD COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Doddiscombsleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 85532 86527
Details
DODDISCOMBSLEIGH DODDISCOMBSLEIGH SX 88 NE 3/125 Straithead Cottage 30.6.61 GV II House. C17 or earlier. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone ; thatched roof, gabled at ends ; projecting left end stack. Plan: T plan. The original internal plan is not clear, there is a heated room at the left end, divided from the centre room by an irregular passage with a modern stair at the rear ; unheated room in the centre slightly differently aligned from left end room, right end room a converted outbuilding. The centre front wing is timber framed on the first floor and the house is entered through the end of this wing with a doorway to the left which leads into the irregular passage. Exterior: 2 storeys. 1+1+1 window front (one window to the centre wing). Ovolo- moulded square-headed doorframe in wing to left forming porch, altered shouldered inner doorframe ; 3-light casement to right of doorway. Fine and unusual C17 4-light oriel window to first floor of wing carried on moulded carved console brackets, window with moulded mullions. 2-light ground floor casement to left in main range ; C20 door to right in main range with adjacent 2-light casement. The rear elevation, facing the road has 6 small casement windows, one of the first floor 3-light casements is C18 with square leaded panes. Interior: Remains of plank and muntin screen between passage and heated room ; rough chamfered crossbeam to heated room which has a C20 fireplace. The first floor of the wing is supported on a probably re-used ovolo-moulded crossbeam ; chamfered beam with runout stops to room to right of passage. The remains of C17 plaster cornices survive in 3 of the first floor rooms. Roof: Side-pegged jointed cruck truss over left hand end of house ; boxed in truss over centre. No access to apex at time of survey (1987) but the apex might establish whether either of the trusses were medieval.
Listing NGR: SX8553286527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85646
- 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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