Marker's Cottage
MARKER'S COTTAGE, TOWNEND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170878
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Marker's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MARKER'S COTTAGE, TOWNEND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170878
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Marker's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKER'S COTTAGE, TOWNEND
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:
- MARKER'S COTTAGE, TOWNEND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broad Clyst
- National Grid Reference:
- SX9854497224
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/09/2012
SX 99 NE
5/130
TOWNEND
Broadclyst
Marker's Cottage
(previously listed as Nos. 3-4 Markers Cottage)
II*
Cottage. C15, C16, C17, altered C18, C19 and C20. Renovated and converted
back to a single dwelling in 1980s. Cob, stone plinth,rendered, main house
with sandstone and brick end stacks, wheat reed thatched roof, gabled end
to left-hand side; sloping thatched roof over later single-storey right-hand
extension; slate roof over small back wing at left with end stack. Plan and
development: Originates in the C15 as a 3-cell through passage house with
all rooms open to roof and divided by plank and muntin screens. Late in the
C15 the parlour was celled and the upper room separated off by a heightened
screen. c.1530 rear lateral hall stack added. c.1600 the hall was ceiled and
the rear stair turret built and the house generally improved. Late C17, kitchen
wing built. Mid C19 divided into two cottages with additional staircase
and other alterations. 1980s, repaired, old features discovered and
restored to single dwelling. Exterior: 2 storeys. 3-window range under a
curved roof ridge line. Ground floor with 2 doors and C19 2 and 3-light
timber casement windows; upper windows, 2 and 3-light under eyebrow
eaves, the right hand 3-light casement, C18 with leaded panes, 4 to the
fixed side-lights, 8 to the centre. Right-hand extension with a single
C20 window. Left-hand end of house with two 2-light casements, each
light with 9 re-leaded panes. Interior: Principal known surviving
features. Hall/parlour plank and muntin screen painted on both sides;
painting dated stylistically 1470-1510. Original (C15) 4-light window
with surviving central mullion. c.1600 3-light window rebated for
glazing. Large areas of C17 plaster daub. Joinery, beams, door frames
etc from the several periods. Several good fireplaces. Roof: Three pairs
of jointed cruck trusses, the south pair extending down to ground level,
as does the north one at end of the painted screen. The others rest on
wooden plates in the cob walls just above the stone plinth. Trusses
morticed and side pegged at apex, diagonally set ridge piece, collars
and purlins. Smoke blackened rye thatch throughout entire length.
(Detailed information from National Trust, report by Isobel Richardson).
Listing NGR: SX9862997414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88443
- 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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