Yeas Cottage
YEAS COTTAGE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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