Shelly Cottage
Shelly Cottage, EX20 2LA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171597
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shelly Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Shelly Cottage, EX20 2LA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171597
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shelly Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Shelly Cottage, EX20 2LA
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:
- Shelly Cottage, EX20 2LA
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:
- SX6535493526
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 August 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
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SOUTH TAWTON
SOUTH ZEAL
Shelly Cottage
(Formerly listed as Shelley Cottage)
GV
II
House. Mid C17, rearranged in C19, extensively modernised in 1986. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stack with granite ashlar chimneyshaft; thatch roof.
Plan: three-room plan house facing south. The larger central room was heated by an axial stack backing onto the left room. Originally there was a lobby entrance onto the side of the stack but in the late C19 this was blocked and a through passage inserted through the right end of the central room and another doorway inserted into the left room. In 1986 the central room was restored to its original size. Two storeys.
Exterior: irregular three-window front of late C19 - early C20 horned four-pane sashes and both front doors are contemporary. Roof runs continuously with that of contemporary Shelly House (q.v) to left and is gable-ended to right.
Interior: the centre room has an unstopped ovolo-moulded crossbeam with lightly-moulded joists. The fireplace here is granite with an oak ovolo-moulded and runout-stopped lintel. Roof of large A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars with shaped halvings.
South Zeal is special being one of the few medieval boroughs in Devon where a significant number of its C16 and C17 building still survives.
Listing NGR: SX6535493526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95049
- 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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