Knowle Farm Cottages
KNOWLE FARM COTTAGES, KNOWLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242996
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Farm Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLE FARM COTTAGES, KNOWLE LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04477/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242996
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Farm Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLE FARM COTTAGES, KNOWLE LANE
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:
- KNOWLE FARM COTTAGES, KNOWLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Copplestone
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7828401511
Details
SS 70 SE
2/112
CREDITON HAMLETS
KNOWLE LANE
(south side)
Knowle Farm Cottages
GV
II
Farmhouse, now 2 cottages. C16 core, subdivided and remodelled in C18. Plastered
cob on rubble footings; rubble and brick stacks; wheat reed thatched roof.
Original 3-room and through passage house was converted into two 2-room cottages
facing north; the right (western) cottage occupies the former hall and inner room,
the left (eastern) cottage, the former passage and service room. 2 storeys
throughout and overall irregular 4-window front, 2 to each cottage. Left cottage
has early C20 casements and central door with C20 slate-roofed porch. Right
cottage has C20 casements with glazing bars on ground floor and C18 3-light
casements to first with slender pine casements and leaded panes of thin glass.
(Another survives to rear). Door with C18 oak bead moulded frame inserted through
former lateral hall stack with still projects slightly from wall. Eaves rise up
from left to right above door. Roof half-hipped to left. Inside left cottage
early features are blocked or boxed in. The former passage doors are blocked by
windows. In right cottage both rooms have late C16-early C17 chamfered crossbeams
with step stops and former inner room includes a section of reset late C17 oak
panelling. Roof apparently rebuilt in C18.
Listing NGR: SS7828401511
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 443823
- 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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