Reeves Cottage
REEVES COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242502
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Reeves Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- REEVES COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242502
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Reeves Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- REEVES 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:
- REEVES COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colebrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 77183 01181
Details
COLEBROOKE COLEFORD SS 70 SE 3/126 Reeves Cottage
GV II
House. Probably mid C16 with later C16 and C17 improvements. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stack with C20 brick chimney shaft; thatch roof. Originally a 3-roommand-throughmpassage plan house facing east with inner room at left (south) end. Service end demolished probably in C19 and therefore former passage now at right (north) end. Rear passage now occupied by C20 stair. Large lateral stack projecting to front of hall. 2 storeys. Irregular 2-window front of C20 casements. The 2 ground floor windows lay to left of hall stack and on first floor is a window to left of stack and another in the stack projection to right of chimney. Both latter have slight thatch eyebrows over. At right end is the front passage doorway containing C16 oak crank-headed doorframe and C20 door. Roof is gable-ended. Good interior: passage-hall partition is a C16 oak plank-and-muntin screen, its muntins chamfered with worn, possibly roll, stops. Hall has an inserted ceiling carried on an early C17 soffit-chamfered and late step stopped crossbeam. Fireplace is,probably contemporary. It is built of stone rubble and has been reduced in width to right. It has a plain chamfered oak lintel, a Cl9 brick-lined side oven to left and small window through the back right corner. Another probably C16 oak plank-and-muntin screen at upper end of hall is exposed only on reverse side where muntins are not chamfered. Inner roan, now a kitchen, is small and unheated. First floor crosswalls are plastered and may be C16 or C17 oak frames. A side-pegged jointed cruck is exposed over the hall and although roof is inaccessible the section over the hall is said to be smoke-blackened indicating that the hall was originally open to the roof and heated by an open hearth hall. All 3 first floor rooms have high ceilings under collar level with simple C17 moulded plaster cornices.
Listing NGR: SS7718301181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436082
- 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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