YEAS COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175716
Date first listed:: 04-May-1984
List Entry Name:: YEAS COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: YEAS COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175716
Date first listed:: 04-May-1984
List Entry Name:: YEAS COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: YEAS COTTAGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: YEAS COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cothelstone
National Grid Reference:: ST 19655 30673

Details

ST13SE COTHELSTONE CP

CUSHUISH 3/98 Yeas Cottage II

Cottage, now divided. C16, enlarged and embellished circa 1675, modernized C20. Rendered over random rubble, thatched roof, stacks West and South gable ends, and to East of cross passage. Large stepped external stack on East front. L-shaped plan, 3 cell and cross passage East-west with addition to South-east. East elevation, 2 storey, 1 bay gable end with 1 and half storey, single bay wing to South, C20 2-light casement with glazing bars and imported C19 2 panel studded door in gable end. Interior: Reused moulded ceiling beam and fragment of plaster frieze in South wing, the inner hall has 4 panelled, plain chamfered framed ceiling, cut in South corner where staircase bay originally flanked the entrance for the cross passage, now blocked. Incomplete plaster frieze of mermen(?) and pomegranates (?) with spice cupboard to North of open hearth inscribed RYI 1673. Upstairs the main bedroom, now divided contains good, large plaster overmantel with the arms of the Butchers Guild flanked by surpointers and on lower edge inscribed RY 1674 IY. The West end of the cottage reputedly contains a shallow peak headed wooden door frame, entrance to cross passage, inscribed RIY 1672, with similar inside RY 1673, also a gabled fireplace with a bacon curing chamber beside it, now blocked. RY stands for Robert Yen, a retired butcher from Exeter, and I for Isabelle his wife. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1981).

Listing NGR: ST1965530673

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Legacy System number:: 270309
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in February, (1981)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.