Church Cottage Church House
CHURCH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324979
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage Church House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324979
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH HOUSE
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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Diptford
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 72752 56714
Details
DIPTFORD SX75NW DIPTFORD 4/241 Church House and Church Cottage
GV II
Pair of attached cottages probably originally one house. Circa early C17 or late C16 with later alterations including circa C18 rear wing and C20 addition at left end. roughcast stone rubble. Asbestos slate roof with gabled ends. Gable end stack at the original left hand end. there appears to be a truncated axial stack to the right of centre. Plan: Original plan uncertain. Originally it was either a 2-room plan with a central through passage, the narrow right hand room being an C18 addition, possibly built at the same time as the unheated rear wing of 1- room plan which was added behind the central room and the right hand room. Alternatively the right hand room may have been the third room of a 3 room plan. the right and left hand rooms are heated from gable end stacks neither has an oven; and the left hand room has a newel stairs in the gable end wall to the left (front) of the fireplace. There may have been a stack between the centre room and the right hand room but a staircase now rises against this partition wall; probably inserted when the house was divided into 2 cottages. Church Cottage occupies the narrow right hand room and the unheated rear wing and church house occupies the central and left hand rooms and has a small kitchen in an addition along the side of the rear wing. In the C20 a 1-room plan addition was built at the left hand end open on the ground floor. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window range. 3 sashes on the first floor, the left hand window as early C19 16-pane sash, the others are C20. Ground floor a small C20 sash with glazing bars to the left and 2 late C19 or early C20 2 and 3-light casements to the right with glazing bars. Doorway slightly left of centre with C20 wall below which is slightly splayed back at this end. At the left hand end a 1-room plan addition, open on the ground floor and the first floor supported on corner piers. Wing at the rear has a half hipped slate roof. Interior: The plank and muntin screen between the left hand room and the passage, the muntins chamfered on the passage side with hollow step stops and mason's mitres and a doorway with a cambered head. The plank and muntin partition on the right hand side has been removed except for a short section at the front. The passage has deeply chamfered joists with hollow step stops. The left hand room has a rough cross beam with slight chamfer and some chamfered joists with hollow step stops. The fireplace in the left hand gable end has an unchamfered timber lintel and newel stairs to its left. The hollow right hand room (Church cottage) has a small fireplace with a roughly chamfered timber lintel. Roof: straight principal rafters with mortices for threaded purlins, the apexes are lap jointed and it appears that the principals have been reused and the common rafters replaced. Only the interior of Church House was inspected.
Listing NGR: SX7275056712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101154
- 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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