MAMHEAD COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169108
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: MAMHEAD COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: MAMHEAD COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169108
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: MAMHEAD COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: MAMHEAD COTTAGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MAMHEAD COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Kenton
National Grid Reference:: SX 93373 81966

Details

KENTON SX 98 SW

5/289 Mamhead Cottage, shown as - Maraylea on the OS map

II

Garden house to Oxton House (q.v.), designed in 1792 by the Reverend John Swete who rebuilt Oxton House, 1781-1782. Swete used the building as a rustic retreat and displayed his watercolours in it (Gentlemans Magazine. (1793), p. 592-593. Altered and extended in the 1970s, repair in progress at time of survey (1987). Whitewashed rendered stone rubble, outshuts said to be cob ; slate peaked roof to main block (formerly thatched); one stack with a modern brick shaft. Idiosyncratic Picturesque style, reflecting Swete's personal enthusiasm for Picturesque landscapes and buildings which prompted his 'Picturesque Sketches of Devon'. Plan: The original arrangement is still discernible, although wrapped round on 2 sides by 1970s additions. It was a 2-storey 1 room plan cottage, commanding spectacular views, with an external stair on the west side, rising between 2 outshuts. The first floor room has large windows on all sides except the west. The external stair, originally with a thatched pentice roof on an open arcade and narrow open gallery on the west side, has been glazed in and the thatch replaced with slate. There was a door on the north side, now converted to a window. A small single-storey wing on the south side is not shown in the original watercolours but has a Gothick window very similar to those in the main block. Single storey additions, one partly enclosing the wing on the south side, one on the east side. Exterior: 2 storeys with single-storey additions. The main 2-storey block has diagonal buttresses at each corner and canted oriel windows on the north, south and east sides, with the remains of diamond leaded panes and ornamental glazing in the Gothick heads of the lights. The north side has a timber arched doorway with moulded shafts to the jambs, converted to a window. The gabled wing on the south side also has a pretty Gothick window. Interior: The gallery on the west side has a coved plaster ceiling with plaster vaulting. The first floor room preserves the original coved plaster ceiling and original polished Babbacombe limestone chimney-piece with mouldings in white Italian marble and a Babbacombe limestone hearthstone. The windows retain some coloured glass, some C20 replacement, some fragments of very pretty painted C18 or early C19 glass including naturalistic painted flowers, and some pieces of figures. The account of the building to the Gentleman's Magazine describes Swete's inscription over the door "Sibi et fuis amicis IS 1792 Hic licet incertibus horis ducere follicitae jucunda oblivia vitae". Swete illustrates the building in his 'Picturesque sketches of Devon'. The Gentleman's Magazine (1793), p. 592-593. Swete, J., 'Picturesque sketches of Devon' (1792-1801). Vol. 11, MS held in Devon Record Office.

Listing NGR: SX9337381966

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Sources

Books and journals
Swete, J, Swetes Picturesque Sketches of Devon, (1792-1801)
'Gentlemans Magazine' in Gentlemans Magazine, (1793), 592-593
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.