St Marys Cottage
ST MARYS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250889
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- St Marys Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARYS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250889
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- St Marys Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARYS 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:
- ST MARYS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stockleigh English
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 84969 06342
Details
STOCKLEIGH ENGLISH STOCKLEIGH ENGLISH SS 80 NW 6/226 - St Marys Cottage GV II
House, former church house. Early-mid C16 with later alterations. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks with C20 brick chimney shafts, one plastered; thatch roof. Much altered 3-room-and-through-passage plan facing east, away from road and towards churchyard. Former service room on right (north) end. End stacks to former inner and service rooms, the former projecting and now disused. 2 storeys. Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front of mostly C20 casements without glazing bars but including 2 late C17-early C18 3-light flat-faced mullion windows with central casements, both at first floor level. Centre window has C19 casement but outer lights contain small rectangular panes of leaded glass and right window is similar but outer lights contain diamond panes of leaded glass. Many of glass panes are of early thin glass. There are 2 doorways, one at right end and another right of centre. Both have late C19 porches with high steeply-pitched gabled and thatch roofs resting on rustic posts. The front wall breaks forward slightly near the centre. Roof is gable-ended to left (south) and carried over top of disused stack. It is hipped to right. Tall chimney shafts on opposing corners are C20. Rear 2- window front of C20 casements without glazing bars and at left (north) end projecting stair turret to service end. Interior: much altered. Single C16 side-pegged jointed cruck truss of large scantling over hall is smoke-blackened indicating that original hall was open to roof and heated by an open hearth. No surviving passage-hall screen and upper hall screen largely removed leaving only head beam and end posts from C16 plank-and- muntin screen. No hall fireplace. Hall floored in C17 by chamfered and step stopped beam. Small inner room has remains of large C17 stack, converted to an alcove with rear window in C20 (oak lintel now in garden). Inner room and service end reroofed in C19.
Listing NGR: SS8496906342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433390
- 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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