Town Tenement and Yew Cottage
TOWN TENEMENT, EASTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164202
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Town Tenement and Yew Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN TENEMENT, EASTER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164202
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Town Tenement and Yew Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN TENEMENT, EASTER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- YEW COTTAGE, EASTER STREET
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:
- TOWN TENEMENT, EASTER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- YEW COTTAGE, EASTER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5674730337
Details
SS 53 SE
7/35
BISHOPS TAWTON
EASTER STREET, BISHOPS TAWTON
Town Tenement and Yew Cottage
II
Tenement farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Probably C15/early C16. Extended in C17 and
again in C19. Whitewashed rendered cob and rubble with cement slurried slate roof
with gable ends. Lateral hall stack to rear heightened in brick and stack at
gable end of rear dairy. Axial stack formerly service end stack. Originally 3
room and through-passage open hall plan the roof pitch heightened at upper end in
C16 but remaining single-storeyed until C17 (possibly 1624 by datestone over
fireplace) when floors were inserted and stairs inserted in through-passage.
Right-angled dairy extension to rear of service end also probably C17. Lower end
extended in C19 by adding single bay forming overall T-shape plan. 2 storeys.
6 window range of horned sashes with marginal glazing bars to lst floor. Door at
left end with 2 late C18/early C19 3-light casements 6 panes each light to each
side of cross-passage doorway with C20 door. Interior: chamfered beam to parlour
and chamfered hall fireplace lintels. Panelled shutters to hall window. Scroll-
stopped chamfered fireplace lintel at lower end with 1624 datestone above. Cast
ironwork fireback dated 1662 initialled C.P. 2 bread oven openings. Ancient
settle (known locally as the "Bishops Chair") to right of hearth. Kitchen window
has been reduced in width. C18 door of 2 large panels at head of stairs to Yew
Cottage. Interesting roof structure with 2 levels of smoke-blackening. Sequence
of 4 trusses. Raised cruck truss one lower end of through-passage (that over
lower end has been replaced). Smoke-blackened with threaded purlins, diagonally
threaded ridge purlin and cranked collar morticed into blade soffits. The foot of
rear side blade has been truncated due to rear additions. A clean truss sits
directly over it considerably heightening the ridge, nevertheless, matching the
level of the third truss over the hall which is also heavily smoke-blackened with
threaded purlins. Clean truss over upper end is probably a C18 replacement with
side pegged collar, but smoke-blackened rafters extend to gable end. Later
patching and additions to trusses has further raised roof level. The ceiling to
chamber over hall has been dropped leaving part of C17 plasterwork cornice
concealed in roofspace.
Listing NGR: SS5674730337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98514
- 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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