The Knights Cottage, Stowford Grange and Stowford House
The Knights Cottage, Stowford Grange and Stowford House, Chittlehampton, Umberleigh, EX37 9RU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107673
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Knights Cottage, Stowford Grange and Stowford House
- Statutory Address:
- The Knights Cottage, Stowford Grange and Stowford House, Chittlehampton, Umberleigh, EX37 9RU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107673
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Knights Cottage, Stowford Grange and Stowford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Knights Cottage, Stowford Grange and Stowford House, Chittlehampton, Umberleigh, EX37 9RU
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:
- The Knights Cottage, Stowford Grange and Stowford House, Chittlehampton, Umberleigh, EX37 9RU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chittlehampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 63309 26648
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 April 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SS 62 NW
11/192
SWIMBRIDGE
CHITTLEHAMPTON
The Knights Cottage, Stowford Grange and Stowford House
(formerly listed as Stowford House, EAST STOWFORD)
GV
II
House. Some C17 fabric extended and entirely remodelled in C19. Roughly coursed stone rubble. Slate roof with plain moulded bargeboards at left gable end. Stone stack at hipped end to right. Stone stack to front between two left-hand gables. Complex plan.
The C17 fabric is contained in the south-facing range which now forms a wing to the rear right side of the added and C19 Gothick front range with a contemporary additional short wing to rear left side. Two storeys. Four window range. Two gables flanking larger central gable. Fenestration in Gothick style with surrounds in stone to ground floor, timber to upper storey, all with segmental pointed arches to the lights. Single two-light window each side of canted bay window two storeys in height with hipped slate roof and windows of three-lights with single sidelights on each floor. Ground floor has two-light window to left of the canted bay and gabled porch to right with four-centred arched doorway and three-light windows to each side. Additional bay forming gable end of rear wing to right has three-light casements on each floor in same style. Canted bay window to left gable end. A single four-light ovolo mullion timber window survives to the rear range. Bell and bellcote at eaves level to right.
Interior: the central room in the C17 rear wing contains central beam and bressumers, ovolo-moulded with run-out stops, with similarly moulded and stopped joists. The roof structure of the rear wing has been raised and replaced except for a single probably C17 truss over the lower front end.
Listing NGR: SS6330926648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98675
- 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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