2 Cottages Adjoining to Rear (South-west) of No 1 Mill House
2 COTTAGES ADJOINING TO REAR (SOUTH-WEST) OF NO 1 MILL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305683
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 2 Cottages Adjoining to Rear (South-west) of No 1 Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- 2 COTTAGES ADJOINING TO REAR (SOUTH-WEST) OF NO 1 MILL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305683
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 2 Cottages Adjoining to Rear (South-west) of No 1 Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 COTTAGES ADJOINING TO REAR (SOUTH-WEST) OF NO 1 MILL HOUSE
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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:
- 2 COTTAGES ADJOINING TO REAR (SOUTH-WEST) OF NO 1 MILL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Tawton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 65126 93525
Details
SX 6493 - 6593 SOUTH TAWTON SOUTH ZEAL
8/255 2 cottages adjoining to to rear (south-west) of No. 1 Mill House GV II
Pair of cottages. Late C17-early C18, possibly C16 origins. Partly plastered walls, mostly granite stone rubble but sections are cob; disused cob stacks; corrugated iron roof, formerly thatch. Plan: pair of 1-room plan cottages projecting at right angles to rear of No. 1 Mill House (q.v.) and facing south-east. Both have stacks on the left ends, the one belonging to the right cottage backing onto the left cottage. Both are 2 storeys. Exterior: overall 4-window front, each cottage with a 2-window front and front doorway on the right side. Part of the ground floor front belonging to the right cottage is hidden behind a C20 garage. The windows are C19, some are casements with glazing bars (and one of the first floor windows has one light containing tiny rectangular panes of leaded glass), others are fixed pane and glazed with overlapping panes, workshop fashion. One however, the ground floor one at the left end, maybe C18; a 2-light flat-faced mullion window with a glazing rebate but now shuttered. The left cottage doorway contains an old, maybe original, plank door with coverstrips. The right cottage doorway contains a C19 plank door. Roof is gable-ended to left and hipped to right. Interior has plain carpentry detail; roughly-finished crossbeams, plain oak lintels to the granite fireplaces and roof of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. At the right end, on the front corner, where the right cottage abuts No. 1 Mill House there is a tiny blocked first floor doorway; a round-headed arch probably C16 in date. South Zeal is special being one of the few medieval boroughs in Devon where a significant number of its C16 and C17 houses survive.
Listing NGR: SX6512693525
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95040
- 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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