DEER'S LEAP DEER'S LEAP COTTAGE

DEER'S LEAP COTTAGE, WEST TOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107043
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: DEER'S LEAP DEER'S LEAP COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: DEER'S LEAP COTTAGE, WEST TOWN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107043
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: DEER'S LEAP DEER'S LEAP COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: DEER'S LEAP COTTAGE, WEST TOWN ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: DEER'S LEAP, WEST TOWN ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DEER'S LEAP COTTAGE, WEST TOWN ROAD
Statutory Address:: DEER'S LEAP, WEST TOWN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Newton St. Cyres
National Grid Reference:: SX 87775 97682

Details

NEWTON ST CYRES WEST TOWN ROAD SX 89 NE 5/55 Deer's Leap and Deer's Leap - Cottage

GV II

Former farmhouse, now 2 cottages. Early C17, possibly earlier. Plastered cob on rubble plinth; stone and brick stacks; thatched roof. Traditional 3-room and through passage plan with inner room to right (now Deer's Leap Cottage). Roof hipped to right, half-hipped to left. Now 2-storeys throughout plus 3 window front. Massive plastered volcanic stone stack projects from hall to front (north-west). Apparently C19 stacks on rear wall serving outer rooms. Passage door left of stack. Irregular fenestration of C19 and C20 iron and wooden casements. Service room at lower end with C17 axial beam supported on end wall by carved post. Oak post-and-panel screen on lower passage side. Large C17 hall fireplace of volcanic stone with oak lintel (chamfered with scroll stops). Rear hall wall with C17 oak window of 2-lights and chamfered mullions. Original framing exposed on first floor.

Listing NGR: SX8777597682

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Legacy System number:: 96407
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.