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BROOK COTTAGE BROOKSIDE

BROOK COTTAGE, 1, THE PLAINS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308481
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1978
List Entry Name:: BROOK COTTAGE BROOKSIDE
Statutory Address:: BROOK COTTAGE, 1, THE PLAINS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308481
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-May-1986
List Entry Name:: BROOK COTTAGE BROOKSIDE
Statutory Address 1:: BROOK COTTAGE, 1, THE PLAINS
Statutory Address 2:: BROOKSIDE, 2, THE PLAINS

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:: BROOK COTTAGE, 1, THE PLAINS
Statutory Address:: BROOKSIDE, 2, THE PLAINS

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

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Rattery
National Grid Reference:: SX 74061 61673

Details

RATTERY THE PLAINS SX 76 SW

6/51 Nos 1 (Brook Cottage) and No 2 (Brookside) 8-8-78 (formerly listed as nos 1 and 2, and out GV building attached to II* north of No. 2)

Range of two cottages originally one house. Circa C15/early C16 with later alterations. Slate rubble with asbestos slate roof with gabled ends. No 1 at west end has higher roof level. Three room plan with through passage separating storeyed west end (No 1) and central two bay open hall (now floored and shared by Nos 1 and 2) and wing at right angles to rear of storeyed east end (No 2). Gable end and rear lateral stacks. Projection on rear wall of west end, possibly a garderobe with scroll slit window in the angle. Two storeys. Long range with six window south front. C19 and C20 casements. Timber lintels to first floor corridors, two are chamfered. Concrete ground floor lintels. No 1 to left has glazed door to through passage and porch with hipped slate roof to side of buttress with set-offs. No 2 has C20 plank door to right with slated hood. Wing at rear of No 2 (North east) the east side wall has C15 stone window fragments forming two-light window with cinquefoil heads, inside there is a moulded timber lintel. Damaged window above with one surviving cusped light. Interior: Roof over No 2 (east end) has four trusses one against east gable wall, with morticed apices, morticed slightly cambered collars, side-pegged. Threaded purlins and diagonal ridge-piece. West bay over No 2 is smoke-blackened.Another bay of open hall over No 1 is also said to be smoke-blackened. First truss over rear wing is morticed at apex and morticed far missing collar, threaded or trenched purlins, the other trusses over rear wing are later. No 2 at east end has step stopped chamfered ceiling beams. No 1 to west has four jointed cruck trusses, not smoke-blackened, with morticed apices and morticed slightly cranked collars, all side-pegged. Three tiers of threaded purlins and some rafters intact. Diagonal ridge. Tall ground floor with two beams and two half beams against end walls, with very deep slightly convex chamfers with bar stops. Large window lintel on front with ogee and two hollow moulds and has run-out stops, to partly blocked window. Similar lintel over front doorway of through passage. Newel stair in rear (north east) corner and blocked doorway with stop chamfered lintel on east wall of passage.

Listing NGR: SX7406161673

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 99326
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.