Coombe Cottage and Longview Cottage
COOMBE COTTAGE AND LONGVIEW COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163075
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe Cottage and Longview Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COOMBE COTTAGE AND LONGVIEW COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163075
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coombe Cottage and Longview Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOMBE COTTAGE AND LONGVIEW 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:
- COOMBE COTTAGE AND LONGVIEW COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Branscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 19422 88471
Details
SY 18 NE BRANSCOMBE BRANSCOMBE
7/39 Coombe Cottage and - Longview Cottage GV II 2 cottages. C17, maybe earlier, origins, thoroughly refurbished in the C19, modernised circa 1970. Plastered stone rubble, maybe with some cob; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. Plan: 2 adjoining cottages facing south-south-east, say south. Coombe Cottage, the large of the 2, is the left (west) one and has a 2-room plan, both rooms heated by a central axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. Coombe Cottage has been made by knocking together 2 smaller cottages, 1 each side of the stack. Long View Cottage, the right (east) one, is a similar small 1-room plan cottage heated by an axial stack backing onto Cliff Hayes Cottage, adjoining to right. There is some C17 fabric but not enough to determine the pre C19 layout. Nevertheless it seems clear that a row of cottages has been made by dividing up a C17 house and in the C20 2 of them were united to make up Coombe Cottage. Both present cottages are 2 storeys. Exterior: overall 7-window front of C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. Each of the former cottages has a central front doorway. (Thus Coombe Cottage has 2 front doorways). The centre and right doorways contain C20 plank doors and the left 1 contains a C19 part-glazed 6-panel door. All have hipped thatch-roofed porches, those of Coombe Cottage on rustic posts and that of Longview Cottage on sloping buttresses. The roof is gable-ended to right and to left it abuts the adjoining house. Interior: most of the carpentry detail is C19 and plainly finished. There are however a couple of C17 chamfered and step-stopped crossbeams. The centre room fireplace is also C17; stone rubble with chamfered oak lintel. The roof structure is mostly C19 although the truss over the left room of Coombe Cottage has slightly curving principals and maybe C17.
Listing NGR: SY1943488478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88711
- 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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