Bell Cottages
BELL COTTAGES, 2 AND 3, BELL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325641
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BELL COTTAGES, 2 AND 3, BELL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325641
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL COTTAGES, 2 AND 3, BELL HILL
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:
- BELL COTTAGES, 2 AND 3, BELL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bickleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 94079 07188
Details
SS 90 NW BICKLEIGH BELL HILL, Bickleigh 5/13 Nos 2 and 3 Bell Cottages GV II 2 cottages, formerly 1 house. Circa late C16/early C17. Whitewashed and rendered ; thatched roof with plain ridge, half-hipped at right end, adjoining No 1 (q.v.) at left end ; front lateral stack, rear lateral stack. The original plan is not entirely clear but may have been a 2 room and through passage arrangement (rear door opposed to blocked doorway on front) with a hall/kitchen to the right, heated from the rear lateral stack and a parlour to the left heated from the front lateral stack. However, there are some unanswered questions to the internal arrangements : the relationship between this building and No 2 is unclear and the cross wall between the 2 rooms is surprisingly close to the left hand jamb of the rear wall fireplace. No 3, to the right, may originally have been 2 rooms wide with a very narrow room to the right. Later lean-to adjoins at right end with a tiled roof. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front, the front wall blank to the left of the stack. C20 glazed front door to No 3 to right of centre; blocked doorway to putative passage to right of the front lateral stack. C20 timber casements. Interior No 3 (to the right) has an open fireplace with stone rubble jambs and a pyramid stopped lintel ; a chamfered axial beam with scroll stops extends as far as the straight stair, to right of centre of the room. No 2 has a chamfered scroll- stopped cross beam and C20 grate. Adjoining the left end of No 2 is a small square stone room (flying freehold with No 7), said to have been a lock-up. Roof: Straight principal rafters visible in the first floor rooms. Part of a thatched group on Bell Hill.
Listing NGR: SS9407707191
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96632
- 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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