Bowerings Cottage
BOWERINGS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163069
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bowerings Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOWERINGS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163069
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bowerings Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWERINGS 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:
- BOWERINGS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wembworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 66050 13338
Details
WEMBWORTHY BRIDGE REEVE SS 61 SE 1/6 Bowerings Cottage - - II Cottage. Late C17-early C18 with C19 additions. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof, corrugated iron to outshots. Originally a 2-room plan cottage facing south-east with central stair and end stacks. Outshots to rear may be original. C19 addition as a third room on right (north-east) end set back slightly from main front. C19 outshot on left end. 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window front to main block with fourth window on C19 extension. The 3 first floor windows of main block are possibly C18 3-light oak flat-faced mullion windows containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. These have thatch eyebrows over. The rest are C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. The front door is central to main block behind a C19 timber porch with hipped thatch roof. Main roof is gable-ended to left and hipped to right. Interior is little-modernised. There are no ground floor crossbeams. Instead a series of joists of large scantling. Right room fireplace is blocked. Left room fireplace has stone rubble jambs and plain soffit-chamfered oak lintel and includes an original cloam oven to left and a C19 brick-lined oven to right with cast iron door. Roof inaccessible but feet of probably original A-frame trusses show.
Listing NGR: SS6604813332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95540
- 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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