Hope Cottage Rolle Arms Windy Thatch
HOPE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258324
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Cottage Rolle Arms Windy Thatch
- Statutory Address:
- HOPE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06553/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258324
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Cottage Rolle Arms Windy Thatch
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ROLLE ARMS, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- WINDY THATCH, HIGH STREET
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:
- HOPE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ROLLE ARMS, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WINDY THATCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chittlehampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 63550 25481
Details
SS 62 NW CHITTLEHAMPTON HIGH STREET (north side) Chittlehamton 1/139 Windy Thatch, Rolle Arms and - Hope Cottage (formerley listed as 20.2.67 Nos.1-3 Rolle Arms) GV II -. 3 adjoining cottages. C17 or very possibly earlier fabric concealed. Painted rendered stone rubble end cob. Thatch roof, hipped to front wing at left end, gable end to right. Brick stack at right end, shallow rounded stack at left end, 2 rear lateral stacks, that to left rendered with offsets, that to right with tapered cap, and unrendered stone rubble stack to gable end of rear wing. Plan: as interiors not accessible, the full plan and development could not be assessed. The 3 cottages may well have originated as a single tenement of 3-room- and-cross-passage type, with lower end to right, with wings later added in the C17 and C18 to rear right end and front left end. Windy Thatch, at left end, has direct entry to inner face of front wing into principal front room, with smaller room at rear. Rolle Arms appears to be of 2 rooms, the right-nand room heated by rear lateral stack and Hope Cottage at right end has room to left heated by rear lateral stack and room to right heated by gable end stack of entrance passage, with probably kitchen wing to rear right end. 2 storeys. C19 fenestration principally intact. Hope Cottage has 3-window range, 2-light casements, 3 panes per light above 3-light casement, 8 panes per light to left and 4 paned sash to right of C20 door with gabled hood. Rolle Arms has a 3- light and 2-light casement, 6 panes per light on each floor and doorway at left end close to the angle of the front wing at the left end. Windy Thatch has 2-light casement, 6 panes per light above 4-panelled door to inner face of wing, and 3-light casement, 6 panes per light to front end. Interiors not inspected but may well contain early features and the roof structure may well be medieval.
Listing NGR: SS6355025481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 444769
- 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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