GOLDCOMBE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281028
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: GOLDCOMBE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE WEST
Statutory Address:: GOLDCOMBE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE WEST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281028
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: GOLDCOMBE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE WEST
Statutory Address 1:: GOLDCOMBE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE WEST

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:: GOLDCOMBE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE WEST

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 14052 98447

Details

GITTISHAM SY 19 NW

7/135 Goldcombe including walls to garden to the west

II

House, formerly a farmhouse, including walls to the garden at the front (west). Circa late C16/early C17 origins, extended and remodelled in brick in circa 1700, C20 renovations. Hand-made Flemish bond brick, rear right wing partly stone; C20 tiled roof, (formerly thatched), hipped at left end, gabled at right end, hipped at ends of wings; right end stack and axial stack to main range; axial stack to rear right wing, all with brick shafts. Plan: Overall U plan, a west-facing main range with rear left and right wings at right angles and a rear outshut between the wings. The main range is 4 rooms wide; an entrance to right of centre into a lobby facing an unheated service room, a large room to the right (south) heated from the end stack, 2 rooms to the left (north) heated from back to back fireplaces in an axial stack. The right end of the house is circa late C16/early C17, the interior features pre-dating the external walls. The plan type, with an entrance facing a small unheated service room, is more common in east Devon than other parts of the county. It is not clear whether the existing right end room was the hall or the service end of the late C16/early C17 house, which must have had an integral outshut as the only doorway into the service room is on the rear wall. The left end of the house was probably remodelled as 2 heated parlours when the external walls were rebuilt in brick: straight joints in the brickwork suggest that this was done in sections. The rear wings may have been added at the same time. It seems likely that, whatever the original status of the right end, it became the kitchen and service end after the remodelling, a small heated room in the rear right wing is probably a back kitchen. C20 renovations have involved replacing the thatched roof with tile and some repartioning. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front, a number of horizontal and vertical straight joints and variations in the colour of the brickwork suggest piecemeal rebuilding. C20 front door to right of centre; 3 ground floor and 5 first floor windows, mostly 2-light C19 and C20 timber casements, the ground floor window right 4-light. To the north west of the house a section of circa 1700 tall brick garden wall retains round-headed blind arcading. A low brick wall to the garden, to the west, is also included in the listing. Interior: The right hand (south) room has a chamfered step-stopped crossbeam, an open fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel and a plank and muntin screen forming the partition with the entrance lobby and unheated service room. The west and north partitions of the service room are of stud construction with plaster infill, the plaster removed on the west side (facing the entrance). The fireplace heating the extreme left hand (north) room has a rounded brick fireback, early C18 in character. Roof: One late C16/early C17 side-pegged jointed cruck truss survives over the south end with a later roof structure above it. The south wing has been re-roofed in the last 1970s/80s, the north wing roof trusses are probably late C17. An interesting evolved house with an historic plan form. The handmade brick construction is characteristic of limited area of east Devon but appears elsewhere on the Combe estate, q.v. Parkers in Gittisham village.

Listing NGR: SY1405298447

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 87136
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.