FORGE COTTAGE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105298
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sampford Courtenay
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 63192 01202
Details
SAMPFORD COURTENAY SAMPFORD COURTENAY
SS 60 SW
11/194 Forge Cottage
GV II
Small house. Early C17 or earlier, altered in C20. Rendered cob walls. Thatch
roof hipped to left end gabled to right. 2 brick stacks - one axial and one at
right gable end.
Plan: 2 room plan originally larger room to right heated by axial stack, small
unheated room to its left. Tne main room was subdivided probably in the early C20
into 2 smaller rooms and an entrance lobby at the front.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1 window front, 2 windows to ground floor. C20
plank door to right under thatched doorhood. C19 leanto at right-hand end.
Interior: main room has very large open fireplace virtually the width of the room
with roughly chamfered wooden lintel and granite jamb to the left. Against the rear
wall of this room is a bench with post at its left-hand end which is moulded at the
top - probably a C17 feature.
Roof: 1 side-pegged jointed cruck is visible on the 1st floor. Beside the stack
one principal rafter with a curved foot is visible. There is no access to the roof
space so any evidence of smoke-blackening to the timbers cannot be seen.
Listing NGR: SS6319301201
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93077
- 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.
End of official listing
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