Peep O' Day and Rock Cottage
PEEP O' DAY AND ROCK COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170079
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Peep O' Day and Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PEEP O' DAY AND ROCK COTTAGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07899/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170079
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Peep O' Day and Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEEP O' DAY AND ROCK 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:
- PEEP O' DAY AND ROCK COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thurlestone
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 67559 43584
Details
THURLESTONE WEST BUCKLAND SX 64 SE 4/177 Peep O' Day and Rock Cottage 26.1.67 G. V. II
Pair of houses. Circa early C17 with C18, C19 and C20 additions. Rendered stone rubble walls. Hipped thatch roof, gabled slate roof to front addition. 2 brick axial stacks and one small rubble axial stack. Plan: originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan with lower end to the right. Lower room has fireplace on end wall and newel stairs behind. In front of it is an C18 wing with C19 extension in front of it. Above the lower room the house appears to have undergone a heavy remodelling circa early C20, the passage has become a stairhall and the hall has a fireplace at its higher end. An early C20 room was added at the end of the lower room. Presently divided into 2 houses at the lower end of the passage. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front with wing projecting from right-hand end in 2 stages, the end part with a slate roof. Circa early C20 2 and 4-light casements on lst floor. On the ground floor are 2 early C19 tripartite 20-.pane sash windows with French windows to their left. To the right the thatch extends in a catslide to form an open porch over a C20 glazed door. The wing has a C20 porch on its inner face and a C20 plank door at its gable end. Interior: Rock Cottage, former lower room, has roughly chamfered ceiling beams, an open fireplace with a plain slate lintel and stone newel stairs behind. Peep 0' Day has some unusual reused pieces of carved timber on its stairhall including one over the door depicting the face of a woman - these are reputed to have come from a ship.
Listing NGR: SX6755943584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100874
- 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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