Kings Cottage
KINGS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098032
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098032
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS 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:
- KINGS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gittisham
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 13526 98483
Details
GITTISHAMM GITTISHAM, (north side) SY 19 NW
7/161 Kings Cottage -
GV II
Estate house. Circa late C16/early C17, perhaps with a late medieval core. Colourwashed and rendered, probably stone and cob; thatched roof with a plain ridge, hipped at ends; right end stack and axial stack. Plan: Single depth plan end on to the road, 4 rooms wide, facing south. The earliest visible dateable feature is a jointed cruck truss over the right (east) end: this may be the higher end of a former through passage plan house (rear door opposed to possible blocked doorway to right of centre on the front), hall stack backing on to passage, the lower end perhaps remodelled and extended in the late C17. Without access to the apex of the roof over the right (east) end, it is not clear whether there is a late medieval open hall core to the house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window south front with a front door to the extreme left, 4 1-, 2- and 3-light ground floor windows, mostly C19 or C20 timber casements with glazing bars; 3 first floor 2- and 3-light casements, 2 probably C18 retaining some square leaded panes. The rear (north) elevation has 3 C19 or early C20 plank doors and 1 first floor 2-light casement. Interior: Exposed carpentry to the 2 right hand rooms: an axial beam with bar stops to the extreme right hand room and a crossbeam with bar stops to the adjacent room to the left; this beam is not centrally positioned in the room and there may have been a through passage to the right. Roof: One side-pegged jointed cruck truss survives over the right (east) end; there was no access to the apex at time of survey. The other trusses appear to have straight principal rafters and may be late C17. On the edge of an exceptionally well-preserved village of traditional buildings.
Listing NGR: SY1352698483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87163
- 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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