EGYPT COTTAGE

EGYPT COTTAGE, EGYPT LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106713
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: EGYPT COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: EGYPT COTTAGE, EGYPT LANE

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Date:: 2003-03-25
Reference:: IOE01/10459/26
Rights:: © Dr Ann Allen. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106713
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: EGYPT COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: EGYPT COTTAGE, EGYPT LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: EGYPT COTTAGE, EGYPT LANE

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 69026 14009

Details

CHULMLEIGH EGYPT LANE SS 6814 -6914 7/68 Egypt Cottage - II Cottage. Probably circa 1700. Painted rendered stone rubble and cob. Thatch roof, half-hipped to right end, gable end to left of main range with stone rubble stack heightened in brick and half-hipped thatch roof to former outbuilding attached at left end. Plan: Egypt Cottage is an unusual survival of a single room cottage with direct entrance, staircase and stack at left end. The small lofted former outbuilding added probably in the C19 at left end has been taken in to form part of dwelling in C20, but no other extensions, and few other alterations have been made. Exterior: 2 storeys. Single 3 light casement 2 panes per light on each floor. Former outbuilding at left has small shuttered loft opening. Outbuilding is slightly recessed from the main range and a C20 porch with thatched hipped roof has been added across the angle. Interior: largely unspoilt. Single chamfered cross ceiling beam with hollow step- stops and slightly cambered chamfered fireplace lintel. Dog-leg staircase to left of fireplace. Original floor boards, roof structure with single truss with straight principals and much of the plaster survives. Egypt Cottage is a rare survival of a 1 room plan cottage, probably of the early C18, which has remained particularly unspoilt.

Listing NGR: SS6902614009

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Legacy System number:: 97246
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.