1 and 2 Michelcombe Cottages and Pixie Cottage
1 and 2, Michelcombe Cottages, Holne, TQ13 7SP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107384
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2 Michelcombe Cottages and Pixie Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 1 and 2, Michelcombe Cottages, Holne, TQ13 7SP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107384
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2 Michelcombe Cottages and Pixie Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 and 2, Michelcombe Cottages, Holne, TQ13 7SP
- Statutory Address 2:
- Pixie Cottage, Holne, TQ13 7SP
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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:
- 1 and 2, Michelcombe Cottages, Holne, TQ13 7SP
- Statutory Address:
- Pixie Cottage, Holne, TQ13 7SP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holne
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 69683 68920
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 December 2023 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
SX 66 NE
3/185
HOLNE
MICHELCOMBE
1 and 2 Michelcombe Cottages and Pixie Cottage
(Formerly listed as Michelcombe Cottage and Nos 1 and 2)
GV
II
Three cottages, originally one house. Circa C16, remodelled and lower end entirely rebuilt and extended in late C19. Colourwashed and rendered stone rubble late C19 work red brick with applied sham timber framing. Steeply pitched slate hipped roof with gabled ends, rear pitch of higher end clad in asbestos slates. Late C19 pierced ridge tiles. Three-room and through passage plan with axial stack backing onto passage and internal newel stairs to side of stack at front. Inner room probably originally unheated, and with later gable end stack inserted. Lower end entirely rebuilt and extended with two storeyed gabled porch in front of passage, serving two cottages. The lower end might have been originally a shippon. Two storeys. Approximately five-window range. Mainly late C19 three -light casments with glazing bars in red brick surrounds with segmental arches. Gabled half dormers with decorative bargeboards over hall and lower end. One circa C18 two-light casement to right ground floor with leaded panes and later raking dormer above. Small stair window at centre. In front of lower end and passage a wide gabled projection over porches, red brick, jettied over ground floor with applied sham timber framing, decorative bargeboards and plank doors on left and right returns. Plank door at right-hand higher end.
Interior: blocked hall fireplace newel stairs to side of stack with renewed treads and simple C19 balustrade at top. Hall ceiling plastered and inner room partition boarded over. Inner room has square section joists, small later gable end fireplace and late C19 framed staircase. Lower end not inspected inside. Roof trusses have morticed apices and lap-jointed collars over hall and higher end. This is an interesting and much evolved house with C16 origins and converted into three cottages in late C19 when it was refashioned and partly rebuilt in the old English style.
Listing NGR: SX6968368920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99299
- 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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