Church Cottage
CHURCH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169807
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169807
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheriton Bishop
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 77337 93529
Details
SX 79 SE CHERITON BISHOP CHERITON BISHOP
10/33 Church Cottage
GV II
Church House, now house. Late C15-early C16 with later C16, C19 and C20 improvements and extensions. Plastered cob walls on rubble footings; stone and cob stacks with C19 brick tops; thatched roof. Irregular plan facing south-west. Now 2 storeys throughout with 6 ground floor rooms. Apparently derived from an original 3-room and through-passage plan with service room at north-west end (left of front). Late C16 cottage or service block built onto right of cob cross-wall and further extended 1 room circa 1983. Passage doors now blocked and front door inserted to former inner room. The small size of service end and passage may imply that that end reduced in size. Hall stack backing onto former passage and lateral stack with bread oven projecting to rear of cottage/service block. Cob stair turret to rear of hall now disused. Long 6-window front mostly C19 and C20 casements of various size and irregular disposition. The centre-right, 2-light first; floor window is an adaptation of a C17 4-light oak frame with chamfered mullions. The eaves rise over 1983 half-dormer at right end and over two adjacent half-dormer to left including 1 C19 Gothick-style casement with cinquefoil heads and original leaded glass over transom. Most windows have glazing bars. Main door has late C19 gabled porch with slate roof, glazed sides and shaped bargeboards. Well preserved interior. Sooted rafters and thatch over hall and inner room suggest an original house divided by low partitions (sooting over inner room thought to be original despite 1962 fire damage to rooms below). 2 bay hall roof on side-pegged jointed cruck truss. Hall has C16 upper end jetty with large framing over oak plank and muntin screen, and large C16 granite fireplace with oak lintel backing onto former passage with remains of contemporary oak plank and muntin screen. including flat-arched door frame to right. A segmental-headed oak doorframe with studded oak plank door in rear wall leads from hall to former stair turret. Hall floored with late C16-early C17 chamfered and stopped beams. Cottage/service block has kitchen fireplace in rear wall and axial beam, chamfered with step stops. End room and chamber over converted from outshot in 1983. Sources G W Copeland, Devonshire Church Houses, Part 4. Trans. Devon Assoc. Vol. 95 (1963) pp 139-40.
Listing NGR: SX7733993530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 95, (1963), 139-140
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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