Lower East Coombe
LOWER EAST COOMBE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262974
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower East Coombe
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER EAST COOMBE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262974
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower East Coombe
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER EAST COOMBE
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:
- LOWER EAST COOMBE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stockleigh Pomeroy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 88811 04001
Details
STOCKLEIGH POMEROY SS 80 SE 10/235 Lower East Coombe - GV II
House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa late C15 or early C16, floored in late C16 or early C17 and extended at lower end in C19 and truncated at higher end in C20. Rendered and painted cob walls. Wheat-reed thatched roof, hipped to left and truncated gable end to right. 3-room-and-through-passage plan, originally with open hall and open lower and higher ends, probably divided by low screens. The inner room and small part of hall demolished in C20 and lower end extended by one room in C19. Projecting stone lateral stack with round oven on front of hall. Lateral brick stack to rear of lower end. 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window south-east front. Original doorway with C20 boarded door to left of chimney breast. Late C19, 3-light casement over, similar to other 1st floor windows. Large window to left of doorway and C19, 12-pane. 2-light casement to far left. C20 garage adjoining gable end, right. Interior: the roof over hall has 2 smoke-blackened jointed cruck trusses with morticed apices and morticed cranked collars. Trusses trenched for purlins and cut for diagonal ridge piece. The rafters and purlins over the hall have been removed, but the roof over the lower end is complete and entirely smoke-blackened. The lower end truss appears to be intact and smoke-blackened and between this and the truss at the lower end of the hall; the purlins ridge piece and rafters survive including original thatch and all smoke-blackened. A photograph taken at the time of demolition of higher end shows that the roof at this end was also smoke-blackened and, therefore, the whole length of the house was originally open to the roof. Hall has splayed late C16 or early C17 lateral fireplace with ovolo-moulded volcanic jambs and similarly moulded timber lintel. Later bread oven. Inserted late C16 or early C17 cross beams in hall with step stops. Plank and muntin oak screen between hall and passage.
Listing NGR: SS8881104001
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433558
- 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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