St Leonards Cottage (South)
ST LEONARDS COTTAGE (SOUTH)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1166060
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- St Leonards Cottage (South)
- Statutory Address:
- ST LEONARDS COTTAGE (SOUTH)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1166060
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- St Leonards Cottage (South)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST LEONARDS COTTAGE (SOUTH)
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:
- ST LEONARDS COTTAGE (SOUTH)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hartland
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 24898 23869
Details
HARTLAND SS 22 SW
3/150 St Leonards Cottage (south)
GV II*
Small house. Circa 1500, altered in C20. Walls of very small stone rubble. Gable- ende thatch roof. Brick stack at either end. Plan: 2-room plan with smaller room to the right and entrance lobby between the two. No early chimney survives - the right-hand fireplace is an insertion of the C19 and the left-hand end wall has been rebuilt but may have previously contained an early stack. Despite its early date the building appears to have been 2 storeys from the outset although the proportions of the rooms may have bee altered and some rebuilding of the front may have occured. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 3-window front of C20 2-light casements, some with small panes. Cl9 plank door to right of centre under contemporary slate hood. The right-hand side of the front is recessed slightly suggesting some rebuilding. Lean- to thatched roof C18 or C19 outbuilding against the right-hand end with door at the front. Rear elevation is notable only for a rare original 2-light timber mullion- window to right with round-headed lights, now blocked. Interior: throughout the ground floor are very heavy chamfererd cross beams with convex diagonal stops. The original roof structure is of considerable interest consisting of 2 pairs of raised crucks which are not smoke-blackened. The left-hand truss has a morticed apex with triangular strengthening block below. The right-hand truss has an unusual apex arrangement with a huge saddle into which the tops of the principals are morticed with another smaller saddle above it into which the diagonal ridge is notched. Very close to the saddle is a light morticed collar. The trusses are of very heavy scantling the front rafter of the right-hand truss has dropped considerably. This enigmatic building poses many problems of interpretation deriving mainly from the high quality of carpentry relative to such a small structure. Its original function is unclear but its close proximity to a chapel (q.v) of a very similar date suggests a connection between the two and it may have housed a priest. Alternatively both buildings may be survivals of a much larger complex.
Listing NGR: SS2489823869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91216
- 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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