WEST BLAKEWELL COTTAGE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107555
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-May-1987
- Statutory Address:
- WEST BLAKEWELL COTTAGE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- WEST BLAKEWELL COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brayford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 69107 31002
Details
BRAYFORD
SS 63 SE
3/5 West Blakewell Cottage (Formerly
- listed as West Blakewell Farmhouse)
20.2.67
-
II
Farmhouse, now private dwelling. Probably early C16 with successive remodellings in
the late C16 and early C17 and later alterations. Painted stone rubble and cob.
Thatch roof, half-hipped at left end, gable end to right. Tall front lateral hall
stack with tapered cap, drip, offsets and projecting bread oven.
Complex phased plan development. Former open hall house, only the hall, passage and
inner room of which survives, the lower end to right, possibly a byre, having been
demolished. It was probably originally only open over the hall and passage, as there
are full height solid wall partitions between the hall and inner room and at the
lower end of the passage, the latter now of course forming the right gable end wall.
The inner room may therefore be a later addition. The passage and lower end of the
hall were floored before the hall proper was eventually ceiled in C17 when a lateral
stack was built on the front of the hall. At the rear of the hall is a projecting
stair turret. The front wall of the hall and inner room has been rebuilt out in line
with the lateral stack, and the rear of the passage partitioned off to form a small
dairy.
2 storeys. 3-window range. C20 fenestration. 2-storey hall and inner room section
of front wall built out in line with front lateral stack with slate roof and two 2-
light casements on each floor, 3 panes per light. 3-light window to right of stack,
3 panes per light above ovolo-moulded door surround to cross-passage doorway with
large bulbous stops surmounted by carved triple leaf motifs.
Interior: headrail and some of the muntins survive to hall/cross passage screen.
Deeply projecting low jetty over the screen with chamfered jetty beam indicating
phased insertion of floors. The stubs of the studs survive to a closed partition
above the jetty creating a small chamber over the passage and lower end of the hall.
with access by winder staircase in projecting stair turret at rear of hall. The
much higher hall cross ceiling beam and bressumers have ornate quadruple-reeded
chamfers terminating in carved leaf stops and scratch-moulded joists. Chamfered
lintel to fireplace with bread oven and squint. 2 axial chamfered beams and
bressumers to inner room with pyramid stops.
The single principal truss over the hall was replaced in C19 but smoke-blackened
rafters survive over the hall and cross-passage. The hall/inner room solid stone
and cob partition rises to the apex of the roof. The roof structure over the inner
room is of C18/early C19 construction suggesting substantial later rebuilding of the
inner room end.
Listing NGR: SS6910731002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98887
- 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.
End of official listing