Barley Mow Cottages
BARLEY MOW COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273476
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Barley Mow Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BARLEY MOW COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273476
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barley Mow Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARLEY MOW COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, 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:
- BARLEY MOW COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, 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 63525 25470
Details
SS 72 NW CHITTLEHAMPTON HIGH STREET (north side) Chittlehampton 1/138 Nos. 1 and 2 Barley Mow Cottages - (Formerly listed as pair of 20.2.67 cottages on north side occupied by Mrs Short and Mr Phillips) Mrs Short and Mr Phillis) GV II Pair of cottages. Probably late C18, remodelled in late C19. Rendered stone rubble and cob. Half-hipped thatch roof with shared rear lateral stone rubble stack. Slate roofs to rear kitchen wing and outshut, the latter with rear lateral stone rubble stack with brick shaft. Plans: originally mirror plan pair of cottages with adjacent parlour/kitchens sharing stack to fireplaces across the rear angles, both originally with bread ovens and small outer service rooms with staircases at rear. Internal partition removed in C20 to left-hand cottage, but the C19 winder staircase survives in its original position. A 2 storey rear kitchen wing was added in late C19. The right-hand cottage retains its internal partition but the staircase is housed in the 1½ storey rear kitchen outshut added probably in early C19. 2 storeys. 4-window range. Symmetrical. Late C19 fenestration with 2 light casements, 4 panes per light, the topmost pane divided into 6 smaller panes. Only the ground floor window at left end has been replaced with a 2-light casement, 2 panes per light. Central brick porch to each cottage with chamfered quoins corbelled out to support leanto roofs with fishscale patterned clay tiles. C19 plank doors. Interior: the principal fireplaces have rounded backs and plain timber lintels. C19 staircases and some joinery survives. 3 roof trusses with straight principals halved and pegged at the apex with trenched purlins and lapped collars. Barleymow Cottages formed part of the Rolle Estate, the late C19 external treatment being typical of many of the buildings in its ownership. The cottages are said to have been at one time an alehouse.
Listing NGR: SS6352525470
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 444768
- 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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