Priest Cottage
Priest Cottage, Meshaw, South Molton, EX36 4NG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171206
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priest Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Priest Cottage, Meshaw, South Molton, EX36 4NG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171206
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priest Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Priest Cottage, Meshaw, South Molton, EX36 4NG
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:
- Priest Cottage, Meshaw, South Molton, EX36 4NG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Meshaw
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7654219571
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 April 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SS 71 NE
4/39
MESHAW
Priest Cottage
(Formerly listed as CLEAVE HILL Prescott)
II
House. C17 or earlier, much C19 alteration, restored and extended late C20. Rubble stone and cob, rendered, slate roof with a clay ridge, tall lateral stack on the frontage.
Plan: single room depth, three rooms-and-through-passage, lower end to left of passage, formerly heated by a gable axial stack, this now completely removed by a previous owner, plank and muntin partition to right of through-passage giving onto central hall with the lateral stack at the front, unheated inner room with false C20 fireplace. Through-passage widened C20 when a staircase was inserted. First floor with C19 and C20 rearrangement, roof completely replaced in C19.
Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical, 2:2 window range, two and three-light C20 casements, each with a single horizontal glazing bar. Door opening to the through-passage to the left, C20 glazed door. Large C20 two-storeyed addition at the rear with a flat roof, small mock cupola.
Interior: lower room featureless. Hall with a ceiling cross beam, deep chamfered to the inner face with a cyma stop. Plank and muntin screen to through-passage, semi-circular head doorway with chamfered edges, old plank door. Hall fireplace with roughly smoothed wooden bressumer. Doorway with a round-headed frame to inner room, featureless except for roughly hewn ceiling cross beam, inserted C20 secondary staircase.
Roof: first floor with five-bayed C19 roof, no evidence of early work.
Listing NGR: SS7654219571
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97444
- 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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