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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.