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CRABBS COTTAGE INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING AT THE NORTH EAST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280954
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: CRABBS COTTAGE INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING AT THE NORTH EAST
Statutory Address:: CRABBS COTTAGE INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING AT THE NORTH EAST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280954
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: CRABBS COTTAGE INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING AT THE NORTH EAST
Statutory Address 1:: CRABBS COTTAGE INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING AT THE NORTH EAST

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CRABBS COTTAGE INCLUDING BARN ADJOINING AT THE NORTH EAST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Gittisham
National Grid Reference:: SY 13508 98353

Details

GITTISHAM GITTISHAM (north side) SY 19 NW

7/164 Crabbs Cottage including barn adjoining at the north east

II

House. Possibly early C16 origins, remodlled and perhaps extended in the circa late C16 (datestone of 1675 on the front wall), late C20 repairs. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble; thatched roof, gabled at the left end, half-hipped at the end of the barn wing, most of the thatch replaced with slate to the rear of the ridge; left end stack and 2 axial stacks, all with modern brick shafts. Plan: L plan. the main range faces west, a single depth range, 4 rooms wide with an outshut, the right end (south) room now incorporated into a barn wing which adjoins the house at right angles and projects to the front. In the present arrangement there is a small parlour with a stair cell behind at the left (north) end; the next room south is heated with a comparatively small stack butted against an incomplete plank and muntin screen on the south side of the room; then a large heated room with comparatively plain carpentry detail and, at the south end and now incorporated into the barn wing, an unheated room. There are no thick transverse walls in the house and both axial stacks are associated wih thin partitions. The present entrance is directly into the first room from the left but there may have been a through passage in the centre of the house, within the width of the room with plainer carpentry detail. Without access to the apex of the roof it is difficult to judge for certain whether there is a medieval open hall core to the house. However, this seems highly likely as a soot crust survives on the south side of a disused truss over the first room from the right (south), representing either the remains of a room with an open hearth or, alternatively a smoke bay, perhaps to a lower end kitchen. The axial stack in the next room to the north, probably the hall, appears to be secondary, perhaps replacing an earlier lateral stack, graffiti scratched on the north side screen includes a date of the 1540s. The stair cell, entered through an original doorway in the screen contains a probably C17 dog-leg stair. The stair cell and front left (north) room may have been the original inner room. The barn is probably an C18 addition. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front with a C20 recessed 2-leaf front door to left of centre with a segmental arched doorway; datestone of 1575 over door; 2-and 3-light probably C20 timber casements with glazing bars. The inner return of the barn has a C19 or C20 door. The outer return of the barn has a full-height doorway and 3 windows, the end wall has a garage door. Interior: The left hand front room has a chamfered axial beam, the room next right a chamfered step-stopped crossbeam and plank and muntin screens at both sides, the left hand screen has muntins chamfered and stopped and an original doorframe into the stair cell. The right hand screen is interrupted by the stack, although the head beam may be continuous; the finish is plainer than the north side screen. The next room right has 2 rough crossbeams and an open fireplace with a bread oven. A doorframe with cranked lintel on the rear wall leading into the outshut may be the original rear door of the passage. The right hand room (with external access only at present) is within the barn and open to the roof timbers. The stair, presumably a C17 or early C18 insertion has plain newel posts and a handrail, no balusters. Roof: Side-pegged jointed cruck construction. A closed truss rises above the left hand plank and muntin screen, the partition infill partly removed to create an axial passage along the rear wall of the first floor. A closed truss over the right hand room within the house has a soot crust on the exposed timbers and the purlin. In the extreme right hand room (in the barn) there is a framed partition behind the axial stack. A jointed cruck truss survives in the barn, one cruck foot only surviving, supported on a timber pad. The trusses in the barn wing are of an C18 character. An intriguing house with good interior features and an important roof structure, picturesquely sited. Group value with Curlditch and the pair of cottages to the west.

Listing NGR: SY1350898353

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.