ABBOTS COTTAGE THATCHERS

ABBOTS COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204794
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: ABBOTS COTTAGE THATCHERS
Statutory Address:: ABBOTS COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204794
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: ABBOTS COTTAGE THATCHERS
Statutory Address 1:: ABBOTS COTTAGE
Statutory Address 2:: THATCHERS, 1 AND 2

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:: ABBOTS COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: THATCHERS, 1 AND 2

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Combe Raleigh
National Grid Reference:: ST 16051 02440

Details

COMBE RALEIGH COMBE RALEIGH SY 10 SE

6/129 Abbots Cottage and Nos 1 and 2 - Thatchers

II

3 adjoining cottages, Nos 1 and 2 Thatchers circa mid/late C17 and one build, Abbots Cottage, adjoining at the left, is said to be later, possibly C19. Flint rubble, rendered to the rear elevation; thatched roof, gabled at ends of main range; back to back fireplaces is an axial stack to right of centre with a stone rubble stack with Beerstone ashlar quoins, left end stack. Plan: Single depth range, Nos 1 and 2 Thatchers, at the right, (divided as a flying freehold) probably originating as a 2 room plan house, the stair rising in a projection to the rear of the axial stack. No 1 has been extended :- a former single-storey lean-to at the right end has been raised to 2 storeys. Interior of No 2 not inspected on survey but probably 1 room on plan. Abbots, adjoining at the left is probably a later, C18 or C19 addition, with a change in plane on the front elevation. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front, fronting the road. Abbots cottage, at the left, is double-fronted with a C20 half-glazed front door and 2- and 3-light C20 casements, with large C20 windows inserted on the left return. No 2 Thatchers has a C19 or early C20 plank door to the right with a timber lintel, probably into a baffle entry facing the chimney breast; 2 3-light timber casements with glazing bars to the left of the front door. The 2-light window above the front door belongs to No 1 Thatchers which has 2 2-light casements to the right of a C20 buttress; the rebuilding of the lean-to, at the right end is whitewashed and rendered. Interior: No 1 Thatchers inspected. The ground floor room under the thatch has a chamfered crossbeam with pyramid stops and exposed joists; an open fireplace with Beerstone ashlar jambs and fireback and a replaced timber lintel, and a winder stair in the projection. The first floor retains a chamfered stopped doorframe into a closet adjacent to the stack. No evidence of doorways into No 2 has been found during repairs but the flying freehold arrangement and the quality of the interior detail suggests that the 2 cottges were originally built as one house. No 2 Thatches may also have interior features of interest. A 1920 sale catalogue advertising the Combe Raleigh Estate describes the range as associated with Abbots (q.v.) on the opposite side of the road: "3 picturesque stone- built thatched roof cottages containing convenient accommodation, with Laundry fitted with furnace and ironing store" - this may have been the function of the lean-to adjoining No 1, Thatchers - with a "farmery" at the rear with a barn and a 10 stall shippon. Sale catalogue, Thursday 14 Oct. 1920, Auctioneers Messrs - W.R.J. Greenslade and Co.

Listing NGR: ST1605102440

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Sale Catalogue of Combe Raleigh Estate, (1920)

Legal

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