Applecoate Cottage
APPLECOATE COTTAGE, WESTWATER HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216260
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Applecoate Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- APPLECOATE COTTAGE, WESTWATER HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216260
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Applecoate Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- APPLECOATE COTTAGE, WESTWATER 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:
- APPLECOATE COTTAGE, WESTWATER 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:
- SX 81306 94131
Details
TEDBURN ST MARY WESTWATER HILL (south side) SX 89 SW
3/99 Applecoate Cottage
- II
House. Circa late C16 or earlier origins, probably extended and partly remodelled in the C18. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, thatched roof gabled at left end, hipped at right end; 2 axial stacks, right end stack. The present plan is single depth and 5 rooms wide. Complex development. The left- hand 2 rooms, under a lower roof line are of circa late C16 origin and the right-hand room, heated by an axial stack, has been used as a kitchen. The right-hand 3 rooms are under a higher roofline, the central room is heated by an axial stack and has been used as a kitchen. There is no evidence of a passage or opposed doorways, and the unheated central room of the whole range has a passage parallel to the front wall and was formerly in use as a dairy. 2 storeys. Irregular 3+2-window front. The left-hand end of the house, under the lower roofline, has only 1 small 2-light first floor casement with the eaves thatch eyebrowed over it and a front door to the right under a canopy. Ground floor window left C20, ground floor window to left of front door 2-light casement, 6 panes per light. The right-hand end of the house has regular fenestration; first floor 2-light casements with 2 small panes at the top of each light. Interior The heated room to the left of the front door has a deeply-chamfered cross beam with step stops. Open fireplace with stone rubble jambs and a replaced lintel. No access to roofspace at time of survey (1985) but one of the trusses may be a jointed cruck and blackened timbers said to have been visible during renovations. The right-hand end of the house was 1 room withacliimfered probably C18 cross beam with run-out stops and a co-evalopen fireplace with Posbury stone jambs and a chamfered lintel with run-out stops. An intriguing evolved house which may have a medieval roof and retains some interior features of the circa late C16 and C18. The house is set back but visible from the road. Shown as Coate on OS map.
Listing NGR: SX8130694131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401606
- 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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