Truants Cottages
TRUANTS COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106538
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Truants Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- TRUANTS COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106538
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Truants Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRUANTS COTTAGES
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:
- TRUANTS COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Zeal Monachorum
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 71966 03875
Details
ZEAL MONACHORUM ZEAL MONACHORUM SS 70 SW 4/88 Truants Cottages - - II
House, possibly 2 cottages originally. Mid or late C17, modernised in late C19 and C20 extension. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof, corrugated iron to C20 extension. 2-room plan house facing south-south-east, say south, with C20 extension on left (west) end. From the original build there are 2 rooms of unequal size with projecting end stacks, both with ovens. The larger room is to left and C20 stairs inserted into right room. C20 extension to left (west) and late C19-early C20 stables to right. Main block is 2 storeys. Main block has regular but not quite symmetrical 4-window front of early C20 casements with glazing bars and all first floor windows have thatch gables over filled with weatherboarding. The front door, right of centre, is C20 with contemporary gabled and slate-roofed porch. 2-storey flat-roofed extension to left adds a fifth window to the front. Main roof is gable-ended to right and very steeply hipped to left. Interior: the original structure is basically intact. Both fireplaces are built of stone rubble with oak lintels, soffit-chamfered with scroll stops. Both include C19 ovens, that to left a cloam oven made by Dennis and Milton, Old Pottery, Bideford according to the stamp. All the floor beams, 2 to left of the cob crosswall and 1 to right are soffit-chamfered and unstopped and the latter is associated with scratch-moulded joists. Roof of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.
Listing NGR: SS7196603875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95639
- 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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