NEWCOMBES COTTAGES THE OLD SMITHY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1106562
Date first listed: 15-Dec-1986
Statutory Address: NEWCOMBES COTTAGES
Statutory Address: THE OLD SMITHY
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Location
Statutory Address: NEWCOMBES COTTAGES
Statutory Address: THE OLD SMITHY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish: Coldridge
National Grid Reference: SS 69816 05319
Summary
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History
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Details
COLDRIDGE EAST LEIGH
SS 60 NE
1/37 Newcombes Cottages
- and the Old Smithy
GV II
2 cottages. Late C17, modernised in mid and late C20. Plastered cob on rubble
footings; stone rubble or cob stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof and
corrugated asbestos to outshots.
Pair of adjoining 2-room plan cottages facing south with end stacks and stack in
party wall between the cottages. Newcombes Cottage to the left (west) is a little
larger than The Old Smithy. Both have secondary or rebuilt outshots to rear. 2
storeys.
Overall 5-window front, 3 to Newcombes Cottage and 2 to The Old Smithy, comprising
a variety of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars and including a C20 curving
bay window at right end (The Old Smithy). Both has a C20 central door and porch;
glazed with gabled and thatch-roofed to Newcombes Cottage, and plank with a
monopitch and concrete tile roofed porch to The Old Smithy. Roof is gable-ended to
right and hipped to left.
Interiors: only interior of Newcombes Cottage inspected. It was largely result of
C20 modernisation. The left room has a late C17 crossbeam, untidily soffit-
chamfered with straight-out stops. Both fireplaces are blocked by C20 grates. The
left room has an enormous chimney stack apparently of cob and taking up the full
depth of the roof hip. Roof inaccessible.
Listing NGR: SS6981105320
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 95589
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