Abbey Cottage
ABBEY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166318
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166318
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY 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:
- ABBEY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunkeswell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 14195 10692
Details
DUNKESWELL ABBEY ST 11 SW 1/21 Abbey Cottage (formerly listed as Gatehouse Cottage) 22.2.55 GV II Cottage, former small farmhouse and originally part of the gatehouse of Dunkeswell Abbey (q.v.). The gatehouse is early C16, this was probably enlarged to a small farmhouse in the later C16 or C17, modernised circa 1980. Local stone rubble incorporating small fragments of Beerstone ashlar from the gatehouse; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof, slate and tile roofs to rear outshots. Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing north. The right (western) room has a rear lateral stack and the left room has a projecting front lateral stack. There may once have been a passage between the 2 rooms. The right room was originally built as part of Dunkeswell Abbey gatehouse. It was the room of the southern side of the carriageway. The northern room remains as a ruin. It is listed as the ruins of Dunkeswell Abbey gatehouse (q.v). Since no internal inspection was available at the time of this survey it is not clear how much of the original gatehouse was rebuilt when the farmhouse was built. It is 2 storeys with a single storey kitchen extension of circa 1980 to rear of the right end. Exterior: the north front has no windows. There is a roughly central doorway here and it contains a C20 part-glazed plank door under a thatch hood which is carried down from the eaves. The windows round the other sides are C20 casements with glazing bars. The roof is half-hipped each end. Interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey although it is said to include C16 and C17 carpentry and other detail. The previous list description reports "2 open hearths and a doorway with pointed stone head and stop chamfered jambs". Dunkeswell Abbey was founded in 1201 by William, Lord Brewere as a cistercian monastery. Scheduled Ancient Monument 228 (part). Source: P. J.Weddell, Dunkeswell, Devon Religious Houses Survey No. 11 (1986).
Listing NGR: ST1419510692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86576
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Weddell, P, Devon Religious Houses Survey in Dunkeswell Abbey, Vol. 11, (1986)
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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