Beech Cottage
BEECH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107332
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Beech Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BEECH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107332
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Beech Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECH 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:
- BEECH COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Worlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 77413 13748
Details
EAST WORLINGTON EAST WORLINGTON SS 71 SE 8/17 Beech Cottage - GV II House. Circa 1600. Rubble and cob, some rendered; straw-thatched roof with gable ends, lateral stack to centre of front with tall rubble shaft heightened in brick. Plan: 3-room and through-passage plan, the lower end to the left was probably originally unheated. The hall has a lateral stack at the front with an oven and a small single-storeyed integral bay. The inner room is unheated and there is a full height cob wall between the hall and inner room. The stack at the lower end is probably a C19 insertion. 3-room-and-through-passage plan, central hall with sole fireplace, unheated lower room to left, unheated inner room to right, hall with the lateral stack, bread oven, projecting hall bay on right. Exterior: 2 storeys. Irregular fenestration, 2- and 3-light C20 casements with glazing bars, 2 on first floor with undulating eaves rising over them. Door opening to the left of the lateral stack, plank door; lateral hall stack. Pigeon holes at first floor. Single storeyed outbuilding with corrugated iron roof of left end. Interior: hall with ceiling cross beam chamfered with hollow-stepped stops, 3 similar axial beams to inner room. Hall fireplace rebuilt C19, simple wood chimneypiece with bracketted mantle; through-passage blocked by C19 straight flight staircase; lower room featureless. Roof: original roof with closed truss at the higher side of the through-passage, trenched purlins, morticed apex, diagonal ridge, wide shallow rafters, morticed wallpost; full height solid cob wall between hall and inner room extending right up into the roof space. This is a good example of a single phase early C17.
Listing NGR: SS7741313748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97422
- 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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