FLEUR COTTAGE FURNEAUX THATCH

FLEUR COTTAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108152
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: FLEUR COTTAGE FURNEAUX THATCH
Statutory Address:: FLEUR COTTAGE

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Date:: 2005-01-03
Reference:: IOE01/13221/10
Rights:: © Mr Keith Mackenzie. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108152
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: FLEUR COTTAGE FURNEAUX THATCH
Statutory Address 1:: FLEUR COTTAGE
Statutory Address 2:: FURNEAUX THATCH

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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Location

Statutory Address:: FLEUR COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: FURNEAUX THATCH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Churchstow
National Grid Reference:: SX 71186 45912

Details

LODDISWELL CHURCHSTOW SX 74 NW 5/131 Fleur Cottage and Furneaux Thatch GV II House, converted into 3 cottages and reverted to 2 cottages. Probably C17 or early C18, possibly with earlier origins; extended later in C18 or early C19. Painted and rougheart stone rubble. Thatched roof with half hipped ends. Rendered stone rubble staches, the shafts heightened in red brick, at gable ends and at rear. Plan and development: Pair of cottages, Fleur Cottage on left and Furneaux Thatch on right. Probably originally 2 or 3-room plan house, the right hand room heated from a lateral stack at the back and the left hand room with a stack on the left hand end wall. If it were a 3 room plan originally the centre room was either unheated or its stack has been demolished. In circa C18 extended by one-room plan addition at the right hand end and concerted into 3 cottages. In C20 it was converted into 2 houses and outshuts were built at the back. The rear outshut to the right of centre is earlier. Exterior: 2 storeys. Not quite symmetrical 5-window south front. Small window openings with C20 casements. 3 C20 purlines with thatched canopies, to left and right and to right of centre. Rear elevation has large lateral stack to left of centre, C20 first floor casements and single storey outducts with corrigated iron and asbestos tile roofs. Interior: Only the ground floor of Furneaux Thatch (to right) was seen. It has later soft wood ceiling joints, no main beam and an unchamfered timber lintel to the fireplace in the right hand room. The left hand room's fireplace was not seen. The first floor and roof structure were not inspected and Fleur Cottage was not inspected at all inside.

Listing NGR: SX7118645912

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 99540
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.