YEOMANS COTT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1305505
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: YEOMANS COTT
Statutory Address:: YEOMANS COTT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1305505
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: YEOMANS COTT
Statutory Address 1:: YEOMANS COTT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: YEOMANS COTT

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Witheridge
National Grid Reference:: SS7808613829

Details

SS 71 SE 8/68

WITHERIDGE Yeomans Cott

GV II

House. Probably C16, or early C17 C19 alteration including refenestration. Rendered and whitewashed upon a rubble core; straw-thatch roof which is half-hipped to each end, brick shaft to stack at the rear. Plan and development: single room depth, 3-unit and through-passage plan, hall to centre with lateral rear fireplace, heated inner room to the extreme right, fireplace of which is now blocked, lower room to left which has been incorporated into the through-passage; the rear door opening of this passage has been blocked and a C19 staircase inserted at its rear. In the C19 the doorway to the inner room from the hall was blocked, the opening of the original doorway with semi-circular head still remaining, and a new opening made. Exterior: 2 storeys, 4 windows on the first floor, small 2-light casements, left 3 with small panes. 2 door openings, C20 doors, to left ribbed, to right half-glazed, non-conforming glazed conservatory. Interior: hall with fireplace with a high wooden bressumer with run-out stops, rumble jambs, axial ceiling beam with scroll stops, wooden window seat to front window. Lower room to left unheated and featureless. Inner room to right, has kitchen, fireplace blocked, featureless. On first floor the straight principals of the 4-bay roof may be seen, lapped and pegged collars.

Listing NGR: SS7808613829

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Legacy System number:: 97474
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.