Penspool Cottage
PENSPOOL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162772
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Penspool Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PENSPOOL COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162772
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Penspool Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENSPOOL 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:
- PENSPOOL 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 05220 03137
Details
PLYMTREE PLYMTREE ST 00 SE 3/156 Penspool Cottage - GV II
Small farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17, some C18 alterations, C20 extension. Plastered cob or stone rubble footings; cob stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof to main house, tile to C20 extension. Plan: 3-room plan house facing south-west. At the right (south-east) end is a small unheated inner room. Next to it is the hall with a projecting front lateral stack built of cob. The left room nas a projecting gable-end stack. This left room probably occupies the site of a through-passage and small service end room but it was converted to a parlour in the C18 with a new stack. The rest of the house appears to be a single phase late C16 - early C17 house and the hall seems to have been floored over from the beginning. 2 storeys with a C20 single storey extension on the left end. Exterior: irregular 2-window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars, the first floor windows are half dormers. A third window has been knocked through the hall stack. The doorway left of centre was probably the passage front doorway; it contains a C20 door. Secondary doorway at the right end also contains a C20 door behind a contemporary thatch roofed porch. The main roof is tall and steeply pitched and it is half-hipped both ends. Interior: the former inner room ceiling is made up of plain joists, probably not the originals. The hall has a chamfered axial beam with pyramid stops. The fireplace here is plastered and its oak lintel is also chamfered with pyramid stops. The third room has no carpentry detail and the fireplace is C18, brick with a roughly-finished oak lintel. The crosswalls either end of the hall are original oak-framed closed trusses. The hall roof is a single bay between the crosswalls. Penspool Cottage is an interesting house. Few houses this small survive from the late C16 - early C17 in Devon. It also forms part of an attractive group of listed. buildings in the vicinity of Pencepool Farmhouse (q.v).
Listing NGR: ST0522003137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86912
- 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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