Davreen Red Lion Cottage
DAVREEN, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215400
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Davreen Red Lion Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DAVREEN, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215400
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Davreen Red Lion Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAVREEN, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- RED LION COTTAGE, THE SQUARE
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:
- DAVREEN, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- RED LION COTTAGE, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73700 29829
Details
NORTH MOLTON THE SQUARE (south side), SS 7229-7329 18/200 Red Lion Cottage and Davreen 20.2.67 (formerly listed as Davreen) GV II Pair of houses, possibly formerly one. Probably late C16 or early C17, possibly with C18 or C19 alterations or addition. Remodelled probably in the mid C20. Rendered, over stone and rear of coursed stone rubble with scantle-slate roof. Gable ended C20 asbestos-slate roof. Tops of stacks rebuilt in C20 brick. Plan and development: Left-hand house (Red Lion Cottage) has a 2-room plan main range consisting of hall to right with projecting square bay to front and end stack to right with winder stair to rear, and smaller unheated room to left. Entrance to left-hand room, blocked entrance to right of square bay. Probably C18 former dairy to rear of hall. Right-hand house (Davreen) of one-room plan, with entrance passage and staircase to left (possible former cross passage) and 2 rooms (divided longitudinally) to right with integral corner stacks to right-hand end. It is said to have been gutted by fire at some time necessitating the replacement of all internal partitions etc.. It is possible that both these houses were formerly one, and that the right-hand house was the former service end, with hall and inner room to left now forming the left-hand house. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical front. Roughly-central hipped-roofed square bay to left-hand house, with probably C20 first-floor small-paned 3-light wooden casement and large ground-floor C20 small-paned wooden casement with deep reveals, chamfered to top (the old list describes a moulded wooden lintel to this window, probably formerly for a wooden mullioned window, but was not noted at time of survey - September.1987). Carved stone woolmark of Thomas Parker above ground-floor window. First-floor probably late C18 or early C19 sixteen-pane glazing bar sash to right, ground-floor C20 small-paned window to right (formerly doorway, see recess below) and ground-floor probably C20 small-paned window to left. C20 boarded door to far left. Right-hand house has a pair of first-floor C20 small-paned 2-light wooden casements, central ground-floor C20 small-paned 3-light wooden casement, and C20 half-glazed door to left. Dairy wing to rear has small side window with wooden lintel and boarded internal shutters. Interior: Only ground floor of each house inspected at time of survey. Right-hand ground-floor room (hall) of Red Lion Cottage has C17 deep-chamfered half beam to right, above fireplace. C17 open stone fireplace to right with dressed-stone splayed reveals, C20 chamfered wooden lintel and brick-arched bread oven to right. Cupboard to left of fireplace with boarded door. Window seat in bay with C17 panelling and some C19 matchboarding. C17 oak winder staircase in semi-circular well to rear of fireplace; C19 boarded door at foot. Ground-floor rooms of right-hand house (Davreen) remodelled in the C20. First-floor rooms and roofspace not inspected. Thomas Parker was a local wool stapler.
Listing NGR: SS7369829826
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400602
- 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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