Spindleberry Kellys and Kethane Cottages
SPINDLEBERRY KELLYS AND KETHANE COTTAGES, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106711
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Spindleberry Kellys and Kethane Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- SPINDLEBERRY KELLYS AND KETHANE COTTAGES, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106711
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Spindleberry Kellys and Kethane Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPINDLEBERRY KELLYS AND KETHANE COTTAGES, EAST STREET
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:
- SPINDLEBERRY KELLYS AND KETHANE COTTAGES, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chulmleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 68870 14266
Details
CHULMLEIGH EAST STREET (south side),
SS 6814 -6914
Chulmleigh
7/64 Spindleberry, Kelly's and
Kethane Cottages
3.10.75 (Kelly's Cottage)
GV II
Row of 3 cottages. C16 but possibly earlier fabric survives. Painted rendered stone
rubble and cob. Thatch roof with gable ends. Stone rubble stack at left end, axial
brick stack and 2 rendered rear stacks towards right end.
Plan: as only interior of Spindleberry Cottage was available at time of survey, the
full plan and development could not be assessed. The range was occupied as 5 single
room plan cottages within living memory, reduced to 3 cottages in late C20.
Spindleberry at left end, of 2 rooms with direct entry into right-hand room and
staircase running up beside front wall of left-hand room, incorporates 2 of the
former cottages. Kelly's Cottage to the centre returns to single room plan but with
C20 flat roofed 2 storey extension to rear. Direct entry into the front room which
is heated by rear lateral stack and has staircase running up beside left-hand wall.
Kethane Cottage at the right end has been much altered in C20, and incorporates the 2
remaining cottages. The entry into the left-hand room is from the through-passage at
the left end, with direct entry into the right-hand room which is heated by rear
lateral stack. The interior of Spindleberry Cottage suggests that the left-hand room
was an early C17 addition, and that the right-hand room, Kelly's Cottage and part of
Kethane Cottage may originally have formed a single tenement possibly of 3 room and
through-passage type.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Spindleberry has 2 window range. 3 light casements, 3 panes
per light on each floor, those to upper storey are C19, those to ground floor are C20
replacements. Kelly's Cottage has single C20 3-light casement on each floor.
Kethane has 3-window range, all C20 fenestration, 3-light casements to upper storey.
3 principal doorways all have thatched hoods. Plank door to left end of Kethane
Cottage.
Interior of Spindleberry Cottage only inspected. Right-hand room has chamfered cross
ceiling beam and bressumer with keel stops. Left-hand room has ovolo moulded
fireplace lintel with deep chamfered bressumer above.
No access to roofspace but very possibly an early roof structure survives.
Listing NGR: SS6887014266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97242
- 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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