Bell Cottages
BELL COTTAGES, 1, BELL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106960
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BELL COTTAGES, 1, BELL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106960
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL COTTAGES, 1, BELL HILL
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:
- BELL COTTAGES, 1, BELL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bickleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 94086 07183
Details
SS 90 NW BICKLEIGH BELL HILL, Bickleigh 5/12 No 1, Bell Cottages - GV II House adjoining Nos 2 and 3 (q.v.) Bell Cottages. C17 origins, C18 addition, C20 renovations and additon. Whitewashed and rendered ; thatched roof, hipped at right end, gabled at left end with a gabled projection at the right end ; axial stack with brick shaft. Plan: The main range, facing consists of a C17 room to the right, heated by the axial (formerly end) stack and a C20 addition at the left. At the right the accommodation extends to the rear at right angles to the main range under a separate roof and adjoins No 2 Bell Cottages. A gabled projection adjoining the right end is said to have had an C18 datestone on the gable. The building was formerly in use as a Post Office and at that date the projection was probably used as the Post Office. C20 porch on right end in the angle between the main range and the projection. 2 storeys. 4 window east elevation with C20 casements with glazing bars. The elevation, facing the road consists of the blank right end wall of the main range to the left with a C20 lean-to porch with a slated roof; the gabled projection to the right with 1 ground and 1 first floor 2-light casements, 2 panes per light. To the right of the projection, adjoining no 2 Bell Cottages there is 1 2-light casement, 2 panes per light and 1 ground floor 1-light window with 2 panes. Interior The right hand room has an open fireplace with a C17 lintel with scroll stops and a chamfered scroll-stopped cross beam. The door into the gabled projection is chamfered and pegged with runout stops and a 3 plank door. A 1922 sale catalogue mentions that "the tenant claims the partitioning in the living room to screen off the Post Office, the tailor's stove in the tailor's workshop and a wood and iron linhay in the garden". One of a group of thatched cottages on Bell Hill.
Listing NGR: SS9408607183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96631
- 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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