Knights Cottage
KNIGHTS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162664
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Knights Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KNIGHTS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162664
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Knights Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNIGHTS COTTAGE
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:
- KNIGHTS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Plymtree
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 05281 02884
Details
PLYMTREE PLYMTREE ST 00 SE 3/145 Knights Cottage - GV II
House, formerly 2 cottages. Mid - late C17, some C19 alterations and an extension, the cottages were united and modernised in 1959. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; cob stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof to the main block, slate roof to the C19 extension. Plan and development: 5-room plan house facing south. The left (west) end room which was heated by a rear lateral stack is a C19 extension; it is said to have been a shoemaker's shop. The rest is mid - late C17 and was built as a pair of mirror plan 2-room cottages each compromising a small inner unheated room, probably a dairy or buttery and a larger outer living room with a gable-end stack. Now the left inner room has been converted to an entrance hall containing the main stair and the right inner room has been converted to a kitchen. Formerly each cottage had a stair rising alongside the chimneystack but both have been removed. The house is 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular overall 6-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars and the wall is propped by 2 plastered brick raking buttresses. The main front doorway is roughly central and it contains a C20 plank door under a contemporary thatch- roofed C20 plank door. This door is a C20 insertion. Each cottage formerly had a central doorway; the left one is blocked by a window but the right one remains and now contains a C20 French window. The rear wall has similar C20 casement windows and includes a small bay window which replaced a projecting C19 privy which flushed into a brook running along the back of the house. The roof is gable-ended. Interior: the C17 section is well-preserved and most of the carpentry detail is original. Both of the former living rooms have a chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeam although the right end room crossbeam is distinguished by a nick added to each stop. Both have plastered stone rubble fireplaces (including some brick patching) with oak lintels. The lintel soffit of the left fireplace has been cut back but the right one is intact and is chamfered. Both contain oven doorways. The ground floor doorways are consistently wider than usual but the reason for this is not known. The roof is carried on A-frame trusses with pegged dovetail-shaped lap- jointed collars. Apparently the principals are supported on wall posts. This house represents an early survival of a pair of small artisan - class cottages. It also forms a group with other listed buildings in the village.
Listing NGR: ST0528002886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86901
- 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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