Redwoods Thistle Cottage
REDWOODS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098059
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Redwoods Thistle Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- REDWOODS
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00175/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098059
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Redwoods Thistle Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- REDWOODS
- Statutory Address 2:
- THISTLE 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:
- REDWOODS
- Statutory Address:
- THISTLE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Awliscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 13524 01616
Details
AWLISCOMBE AWLISCOMBE SY 10 SW
5/22 Redwoods and Thistle Cottage
GV II
House, divided into 2 cottages. Early C17 (date of 1633 on right gable end) or earlier with considerable subsequent alteration and remodelling and further alterations in progress at Thistle Cottage at time of survey (1987). Stone rubble, whitewashed and rendered to the front elevation; slate roof, gabled at ends; right end stack and axial stack. Plan: The main range, which faces north-east directly on to the road, appears to be the remains of a 3 room and through passage plan house, although it is not entirely clear which was the higher and which the lower end: there is a cross passage to left of centre and the stack of the left hand room, which has been very rebuilt, backs on to the passage. The room to the right of the passage has been subdivided but retains a good circa early C17 window. The right end of the house (Thistle Cottage) was not inspected at time of survey; but is said to be modernised. The right end wall shows an earlier roofline and retains the datestone. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front with a C20 front door to the cross passage Redwoods (to the left). To the right of the front door a good 4-light stone mullioned window with ovolo-moulded mullions, a hoodmould and a king mullion. The other windows are C20, mostly small-pane iron casements with one plastic window to ground floor right. Thistle Cottage is entered on the right return which has a bread oven (blocked internally) and a concrete-faced niche. Interior: Redwoods only inspected. The cross passage has a plank and muntin screen, papered-over, to the right and a chamfered stopped half-beam; this, and a similar beam in the right hand room, extends through a post C17 partition which has provided a service room at the rear. The remains of a timber doorframe with a rounded head leads from the passage into the left hand room, which is plain with no exposed carpentry and a partly blocked fireplace which may conceal an earlier lintel and jambs. First floor and roofspace not inspected. A house of C17 origins with a good C17 window, an oak screen and the possibility of other interior features concealed behind modern plaster. Group value with George Park on the opposite side of the road.
Listing NGR: ST1352401616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87024
- 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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