Chancery Cottage Church Gate Cottage Stone Cross

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NORTH BOVEY NORTH BOVEY SX 78 SW 4/226 Chancery Cottage, Stone Cross and - 23.8.55 Church Gate Cottage, North Bovey. (formerly listed as Church Cottage and GV the stores) II

Group of attached cottages; Chancery Cottage and part of stone cross originally one house, other part of stone cross and Church Gate Cottage originally a later pair of very small cottages. Main range circa early C16 date stone of 1738 refers to porch, considerably altered in C20; adjacent pair of cottages C18. Rendered granite rubble walls, exposed at rear, with thatched roof hipped to right and gabled where it joins adjacent cottage to left, cottage roof thatched, hipped at front and gabled at rear. Main range has axial granite rubble stack with granite cap to right of centre and brick axial stack to left of centre; brick axial stack to cottage. Plan of main range (Chancery Cottage and most of Stone Cross). 3-room-and-through- passage with hall and lower end originally open to roof. Hall stack inserted backing onto the passage and fireplace added to lower end, inner room remained unheated. Further room added at lower end, probably in C17, likely to have been a dairy as there are no rear outshuts due to the rise in ground level. Porch added to front of passage in 1738 from date-stone on it. The remainder of Stone Cross and Church Gate Cottage added in C18 as adjacent pair of cottages at right angles to the main block with 1 ground floor room each originally, heated by central stack. C20 outshut added to Stone Cross as shop front. Main range divided in C19/C20 into 2 cottages at the lower wall of the through passage with Chancery Cottage to the right upper end and Stone Cross to the left lower end. Stone Cross now extends into one of the adjacent cottages added at right angles to the lower end. 2 storeys. Main range has asymmetrical 4-window front with large gabled rendered stone 2-storey porch with thatched roof and small centred oriel window to 1st floor. Other windows 2-light late C19/early C20 casements floor incorporating a small store room in its left-hand side with a shallow lean-to projection as its front wall left of the opening. Wide doorway to through passage with C20 plank door in C16 wooden doorframe chamfered with depressed 4-centred arch. Slate roof outshut to left of porch extending to adjoining block with C20 plank door to right of centre and large C20 3-light single pane windows either side. Thatch rises in 'eyebrow' over first floor window in left of porch. At lower left end Church Gate Cottage and its adjoining part of Stone Cross is taller than the main range and faces away from it at right angles. It has a symmetrical 2-window front with as the ground floor 2 windows to the centre and a door either side. 3-light casements with glazing bars, 1st floor over probably C19 ground floor C20. C20 stable type door to right with shallow wooden gabled C20 porch to left with double plank doors. Interior of Stone Cross only inspected, Chancery Cottage inaccessible at time of survey but apparently has granite ashlar back to hall fireplace facing onto passage with moulded cornice and plinth according to previous list description. On the first floor of Stone Cross in the room above the passage a very substantial roof truss is exposed up to collar level which is arguably smoke-blackened on both sides. It has pronounced curve but no visible joint with a broad chamfer and a curved collar morticed into the truss. Feet not visible. Roof at lower end replaced probably in C19, access to higher end roof space difficult. In the room formerly belonging to C18 cottage is a small open fireplace with rough wooden lintel. Clearly some fabric of the late Medieval home survives in this property despite considerably alterations and it is likely that more early features are to be found inside Chancery Cottage.

Listing NGR: SX7397783863

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