Dibbe Cottage Dibbe House Lower Dibbe Cottage
DIBBE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171126
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dibbe Cottage Dibbe House Lower Dibbe Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DIBBE COTTAGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04608/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171126
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dibbe Cottage Dibbe House Lower Dibbe Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIBBE COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- DIBBE HOUSE
- Statutory Address 3:
- LOWER DIBBE 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:
- DIBBE COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- DIBBE HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER DIBBE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Tawton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 65281 94324
Details
SX 69 SE SOUTH TAWTON SOUTH TAWTON
4/229 Lower Dibbe Cottage, Dibbe House and Dibbe Cottage GV II
3 cottages, formerly a single farmhouse. Mid C17, maybe earlier in parts, modernised when divided into cottages circa 1970. Plastered stone rubble and cob, parts are massive blocks of coursed granite ashlar; granite stacks, two of them with their original granite ashlar chimneyshafts; thatch roof. Plan and development: 3 1-room plan cottages built down a hillslope and is facing north-east. They occupy a 3-room-and-through-passage plan farmhouse. Uphill at the right end Dibbe Cottage occupies the former inner room and it has a gable-end stack. Dibbe House occupies the former hall and passage and the hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage. Lower Dibbe Cottage occupies the former service end kitchen and a small dairy at the left end. Kitchen axial stack backing onto the dairy and there is a large newel stair at the front end of the dairy. 2-storey outshot in front of the dairy. Slit window of unknown function immediately right of the front passage doorway. All cottages are 2 storeys. Exterior: main front has an irregular 4-window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. The passage front doorway is a little left of centre and now contains a C20 glazed door under what might be a C19 gabled hood. The roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. The 2-storey outshot in front of the left end is flat- roofed but a late C19 photograph shows it with a thatch-roofed gabled roof. Dibbe Cottage and Lower Dibbe Cottage have rear doorways. Passage rear doorway (to Dibbe House) has a mid C17 ovolo-moulded oak frame. Interior: only the interior of Lower Dibbe Cottage was available for inspection at the time of this survey. The structure here is entirely mid C17. The former kitchen crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with straight-cut stops and the granite fireplace has an ovolo-moulded oak lintel. Roof of A-frame trusses with mortice- and-tenoned collars. Some of the common rafters appear to be smoke-blackened,maybe reused from a late medieval roof, and the only apparent hint of an earlier house on the site. The rest of the house is probably as well-preserved. Tne previous listing mentions panelling and the Devon SMR reports an oak screen, an oak stair with acorn-shaped knobs and an elaborately moulded cupboard here. Source: Devon SMR
Listing NGR: SX6528194324
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95029
- 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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