Rock Cottage
ROCK COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107260
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107260
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK 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:
- ROCK COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Nympton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7825923450
Details
SS 72 SE
6/137
BISHOP'S NYMPTON
ASH MILL
Rock Cottage
GV
II
House. Circa mid C17, C20 renovations. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone footings;
asbestos slate roof (thatched until at least 1960, old list description), gabled at
ends; back to back fireplaces in an axial stack; left end stack (shaft truncated).
Plan: Single depth plan, 3 rooms wide, with a projecting porch and lobby entrance
facing the axial stack between the two right hand rooms, rear outshut. Both
fireplaces in the axial stack have bread ovens; it is not clear which one served as
the C17 kitchen fireplace. The left hand room has a smaller, probably C18 fireplace
and was probably unheated originally. The house has been divided into cottages in
the past: it was 2 dwellings in 1960 and is reputed to have been 3 dwellings
previously (information from owner).
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3:1 window front with a gabled 2-storey porch to
right of centre with a C20 front door on the left return, second C20 door at the
extreme left. Fenestration of C20 timber casements except for first floor right
which is probably C19: a small 2-light small pane casement. The right return of the
porch has 2 small probably C19 casements. The right return of the house has a C20
ground floor bow.
Interior: The right hand room has a C17 chamfered step stopped axial beam and a
partly-blocked fireplace retaining an original C17 chamfered lintel. The room has a
C17 open fireplace with a chamfered lintel and a bread oven with an iron door. The
left hand room has a smaller fireplace with a slender cambered lintel. The stair
rises behind the axial stack, old oak treads are said to survive below the present
treads.
A C17 house on a prominent corner site in Ash Mill. Group value with the former
forge (q.v.) and Ball Ham (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SS7825923450
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97550
- 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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