Old Cordwents and Cordwents Cottage
OLD CORDWENTS AND CORDWENTS COTTAGE, 1 AND 3, LOWER TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1106644
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cordwents and Cordwents Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CORDWENTS AND CORDWENTS COTTAGE, 1 AND 3, LOWER TOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1106644
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cordwents and Cordwents Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CORDWENTS AND CORDWENTS COTTAGE, 1 AND 3, LOWER TOWN
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:
- OLD CORDWENTS AND CORDWENTS COTTAGE, 1 AND 3, LOWER TOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Halberton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 00427 12780
Details
HALBERTON LOWER TOWN, Halberton ST 01 SW 2/199 Nos. 1 & 3 (Old Cordwents and - Cordwents Cottage) - II* Pair of cottages. C15 or early C16 with later alterations. Roughcast cob, stone footings, with some stone. Gabled-end thatched roof. Formerly a 3-room, through- passage plan house open to the roof, the higher end to the left of the passage. Front internal lateral stack, stone with brick shaft dated 1837, heats hall; external end stack (now emerging from later lean-to) heats lower end. The inner room unheated. 2 storeys. Front: irregular fenestration; all windows with C19 or C20 casements; five 2- and 3- light windows to first floor, 4 of them under eyebrow eaves, one (of 3-lights) with 8 leaded panes per light. One single light window, and four 2-lights to ground floor. 2 doors, one to the former passage (which is now divided by a party wall between nos. 1 and 3), the other inserted later. Lower end lean-to with (re-used) 3-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions and double-ovolo-moulded frame. Rear: C19 and C20 casement windows, all of 2-lights. The building continues along the same axis at the higher end in the form of a now-converted linhay with tallet, weatherboarded to rear, and with one inserted window to the front. Interior: a detailed description of the interior features of this building by N W Alcock and C Hulland and a further discussion by Alcock and M Laithwaite are in print. The jointed arches, stud and panel screens (2 to the through-passage and one between hall and parlour) fireplaces and beams as described there, all remain in situ. The roof space is still inaccessible. Nos. 1 and 3 Lower Town forms a good example of a medieval house with low screens, that underwent modernisation in the form of floor and stack insertion in circa 1550. References: N W Alcock and C Hulland "Devonshire Farm Houses, part IV", Trans Devonshire Association, 104 (1972), 49-53, with plan and-sections of cross-passage screens; N W Alcock and M Laithwaite, "Medieval Houses in Devon and their Modernisation", Medieval Archaeology, 17 (1973), 111 Note: this building was a Grade III listing and known as Cordwents Farmhouse; this name now applies to a C20 dwelling which is not listed.
Listing NGR: ST0042712780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95385
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 104, (1972), 49-53
Medieval Archaeology in Medieval Archaeology, Vol. 17, (1973), 111
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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