Melhuish Down Cottage
MELHUISH DOWN COTTAGE, GOLDCROSS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215978
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Melhuish Down Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MELHUISH DOWN COTTAGE, GOLDCROSS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215978
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Melhuish Down Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELHUISH DOWN COTTAGE, GOLDCROSS HILL
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:
- MELHUISH DOWN COTTAGE, GOLDCROSS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tedburn St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7920993582
Details
SX 79 SE
2/84
TEDBURN ST MARY
GOLDCROSS HILL
Melhuish Down Cottage
II
Small house. Late C17 or earlier. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble
footings; thatched roof gabled at ends; left end stack, front lateral projecting
stack with rectangular bread oven.
The present plan is 2 rooms and a cross passage with a rear outshut the entire length
of the house under a catslide roof. The original plan may have been 2 rooms and a
passage with a hall/kitchen to the right and a lower end room to the left, the left-
hand end of the house has been rebuilt. There is some evidence of a former external
rear stair turret which suggests that the outshut is a later addition. A straight
stair has been inserted in the passage which may have been widened to accommodate it.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front with the large stack with bread oven to right
of centre and a large C20 glazed thatched porch to the passage to left of centre. A
second door on the front to the right of the stack gives direct access into the hall.
Fenestration of 2-light casements, 2 panes per light.
Interior A number of C17 features survive. The hall fireplace has been largely
rebuilt, the hall has 2 chamfered cross beams with bar and step stops, exposed
joists, plank and muntin oak screen with chamfered muntins with step stops. The apex
of the roofspace is ceiled but an early roof structure may exist.
This house has an unusually small circa late C17 hall which shares the features found
in larger co-eval houses. The continuously thatched outshut is an attractive feature
of a building which backs directly on to Goldcross Hill.
Listing NGR: SX7920993582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401268
- 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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