Compass Cottage Honeysuckle Little Thatch
COMPASS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260872
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Compass Cottage Honeysuckle Little Thatch
- Statutory Address:
- COMPASS COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06709/24
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter J. White. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260872
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Compass Cottage Honeysuckle Little Thatch
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMPASS COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- HONEYSUCKLE
- Statutory Address 3:
- LITTLE THATCH
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:
- COMPASS COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- HONEYSUCKLE
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE THATCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilsington
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 79600 76725
Details
ILSINGTON HIGHER BRIMLEY 3X 77 NE 3/100 Compass Cottage, Honeysuckle and - Little Thatch
GV II
3 cottages, probably a single farmhouse originally. Late C16 or C17 with additions at the rear. Roughcast, solid walls; the left- hand gable wall is of exposed cob, and the adjacent front wall of Compass Cottage is probably of the same material. Thatched roof, hipped at left-hand end. In rear wall to left (behind Compass Cottage) is a large granite chimney stack. In centre of rear wall (behind Honeysuckle) is a large, old projecting stack, slightly tapered. On right-hand gable (of Little Thatch) is a smaller rendered stack. Original plan uncertain, but the building is long enough to have had the traditional 3 rooms and a through- Passage; the centre cottage, Honeysuckle, looks like the hall of such a house. 2 storeys. 4-window front with C20 windows, except at Compass Cottage; this has a 2- light C19 wood casement in each storey with 2 panes per light. All 3 cottages have C20 doors with thatched hoods. 2 C20 buttresses support the front wall of Little Thatch. Interior of Honeysuckle has an ovolo-moulded upper floor beam laid parallel to the ridge. In rear wall of ground storey room is a large fireplace with chamfered wood lintel having a step-stop at left end, although the chamfer runs on past the jamb on the right; jambs are of plain stonework. Compass Cottage appears to have large fireplace in rear of ground storey room, this having a moulded wood lintel; chamfered upper floor beam parallel to ridge. Roof timbers exposed in upstairs room. Little Tnatch is said to have no exposed early features, but these almost certainly exist, concealed under plaster.
Listing NGR: SX7960576732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439152
- 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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