Cobley Cottage
COBLEY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105992
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cobley Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COBLEY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105992
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cobley Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COBLEY 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:
- COBLEY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Spreyton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 69944 96778
Details
SX 69 NE SPREYTON SPREYTON
1/286 Cobley Cottage
GV II
Small house. Early - mid C17, possibly earlier, much altered in the C19 and C20. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble and cob stacks topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. Plan: 4-room plan house facing south with central entrance hall with stairs rising to rear. The first room left of the entrance hall has an axial stack backing onto a small unheated room at the left (west) end. To right of the entrance hall are 2 small rooms, the end one heated by an cob end stack. The basic fabric appears to be C17 but it is difficult to fit the layout into a conventional pattern. Further discoveries here might help sort the problem. It is 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 3-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The front doorway is right of centre but would be central if the right end room were not tucked behind the adjoining property. It contains a C20 door in a contemporary thatch-roofed porch. Roof is hipped each end. Interior: the room right of the entrance has its crossbeam replaced by a C20 RSJ. The partition between it and the end room is an oak plank-and-muntin screen but only the plain rear is exposed in the end room and there-fore it cannot be dated at present. The end stack is rubble with a soffit-moulded oak lintel. The room left of the entrance lobby is the largest. It has a soffit-moulded and runout-stopped crossbeam but the fireplace has been partly rebuilt in the C20. Roof of early - mid C17 A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars with dovetail-shaped halvings. Cobley Cottage forms part of a group of listed buildings in the centre of the village.
Listing NGR: SX6994496778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95095
- 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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