The Dairy Dell Cottage
THE DAIRY DELL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317408
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Dairy Dell Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE DAIRY DELL COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317408
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Dairy Dell Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DAIRY DELL COTTAGE
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.
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:
- THE DAIRY DELL COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Abbot
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 38929 78634
Details
SX 37 NE MILTON ABBOT ENDSLEIGH
9/224 The Dairy Dell Cottage - GV II*
Cottage. Circa 1814 for the 6th Duke of Bedford and probably designed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville. Stone rubble with a slate roof hipped at ends 2 stone stack. A long low single depth range consisting of a single storey block at the left end linked to a single-storey and attic heated block at the right end by a rustic loggia in the middle. Long 3:3 window front elevation overlooking a pond. 3 casement windows in the left-hand block are 2-light with glazing bars under timber lintels. The right- hand block has an off-centre rustic gabled porch with Gothick moulding in the gable. To the left of the porch are two 3-light casements under flat stone arches with high transoms and glazing bars, square leaded panes above the transoms. To the right of- the porch is a 3-light casement with glazing bars under a flat stone arch. 2 full dormers at the right end have hipped slate roofs and casement windows with glazing bars. The logggia is supported at the front by 3 rustic posts with rustic struts and has a partly cobbled floor. The right return of the left-hand block consists of rustic planks on partition walls beneath the loggia. Repairs for the Landmark Trust underway at time of survey 1985. In Humphry Repton's first scheme for Endsleigh (1809) which predates the Red Book (1814) a collection of linked cottages was proposed for "Dell site", but this was probably a design for Endsleigh Cottage (now Endsleigh House), and the illustration bears no resemblance to the Dairy Dell Cottage. A letter from Wyatville to Bedford's accountant dated 1814 states "I certainly will take the Park buildings into consideration. Indeed I believe I have have already formed the plan in my mind ..." and it seems likely that he was responsible for the design of the cottage. Bedford Estate Papers, D.R.O., Devon Letters, L 1258/82.
Listing NGR: SX3892978634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92466
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,
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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