Tavy Cottage
TAVY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107015
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tavy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TAVY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107015
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tavy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAVY COTTAGE
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:
- TAVY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bow
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7221701718
Details
SS 70 SW
2/27
BOW
BOW (south side)
Tavy Cottage
GV
II
House, once part of a larger house. Probably early C16 with C17 and late C17-early
C18 improvements. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks with C20
brick tops; thatch roof.
2-room and central through passage plan house facing north with axial stack in party
wall to left (east) and end stack to right (west) end. It is thought to occupy the
hall and inner room of an early passage and service room now divided off as
Godfrey's Cottage (q.v.). 2 storeys. Irregular front with 3 ground floor and 2
first floor windows, all C20 casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass and
C20 external shutters. C20 4-panel front door right of centre. Roof is gable-ended
to right and continuous with adjoining Godfrey's Cottage (q.v.) to left.
Good interior: the through passage probably dates from C17 or C18 subdivision of
early C16 house. To hall on left side is a full height cob crosswall. Hall has
original early C16 roof structure. It is 2 bays with a side-pegged jointed cruck
truss and small curving windbraces to purlins. Roof is smoke-blackened indicating
that the original hall at least was open to the roof and served by an open hearth
fire. Roof over putative inner room inaccessible. The hall was given rubble
fireplace with plain oak lintel probably in late C16 or early C17. It was floored
in early-mid C17 with chamfered and scroll stopped crossbeam. Newel stair alcove to
right of fireplace was rebuilt in C19 but still has a late C17-early C18 plank door
with applied 2-panel front with strap hinges. In front wall is small C18 cupboard
with its panelled door on H-hinges. The panel is now glass. In right room an early
C17 axial beam is chamfered with 1 surviving late step stop. Fireplace here is
blocked.
Listing NGR: SS7221701718
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96540
- 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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