Armada Cottage, Beggars Roost and Number 3 Eastacombe
3, EASTCOMBE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107719
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Armada Cottage, Beggars Roost and Number 3 Eastacombe
- Statutory Address:
- 3, EASTCOMBE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107719
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Armada Cottage, Beggars Roost and Number 3 Eastacombe
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, EASTCOMBE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ARMADA COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 3:
- BEGGARS ROOST
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:
- 3, EASTCOMBE
- Statutory Address:
- ARMADA COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- BEGGARS ROOST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5794930165
Details
SS 53 SE
7/5
25.2.65
BISHOPS TAWTON
Armada Cottage, Beggars Roost and No.3 Eastacombe
(formerly listed as nos 1, 2 and 3 Eastacombe Cottages)
II
Farmhouse, now 3 cottages. Probably early C16, remodelled and extended in C17.
C20 alterations. Painted rendered cob and stone. Thatch roof half-hipped at left
end. Tall rendered rubble stack with pronounced batter, drip and tapered cap.
Axial stone rubble stack (formerly end stack) to right with brick stack at right
end. Originally probably a 3-room and through-passage, now cross-passage, formerly
open hall, plan, the lower end formerly a barn or shippon now converted to part of
dwelling. Inner room possibly rebuilt and extended in late C16/early C17 to form 2
rooms, and 2-storey cottage added in late C17 at right end with a short right-
angled projection to front with gabled slate roof forming overall off-centre T-
shaped plan. 2 storeys. 6 1/2-window range. C20 fenestration of 2-light casements,
6 panes per light with eyebrow dormers. Hall window built out in line with stack.
Cross-passage doorway has moulded timber surround with cranked head. Thatched
porch to centre cottage. Chamfered door surround to right-hand end cottage with
old 2 plank door.
Interior: stop-chamfered beams to principal ground floor rooms except at shippon
end. Right end cottage has scroll-stopped chamfered door surround at head of old
stairs with original treads. Similar door surround to doorway possibly originally
at head of stairs beside axial stack. C17 truss with straight heavy principals
over end cottage. Main roof truss removed to Beggars Roost and 2 raised cruck
trusses over hall and cross-passage, the lower end of the cross-passage forming
solid cob partition to apex of roof. Access only to roof space over shippon end
but exposed roof timbers over hall suggest smoke-blackening may well extend over
hall and possibly inner room.
Listing NGR: SS5794930165
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98483
- 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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