Dove Cottage Higher Dishcombe Shelley Way Cottage

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SX 6493 - 6593 SOUTH TAWTON

8/149 Higher Dishcombe, Dove Cottage and Shelley Way Cottage

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3 cottages, formerly a single farmhouse. Mid C17, subdivided, modernised and enlarged in mid C20. Plastered walls, probably granite stone rubble, maybe with cob; granite stacks topped with plastered C20 brick; asbestos slate roof, formerly thatch. Plan and development: T-shaped building. The main block faces east and it is occupied by Higher Dishcombe which is a 3-room plan cottage. Only 1 room is original. This is the large room at the left (southern) end which has a large axial stack backing onto the 2-room plan extension at the right (northern) end. The C17 block abuts the southern crosswing which contains Dove Cottage and Shelley Way Cottage and appears mostly C17. These cottages face south. Dove Cottage is a 1- room plan cottage at the left (west) end and has a gable-end stack. Outshot to rear in the angle of the 2 wings may be original. Shelley Way Cottage is a 2-room plan cottage. The larger left room has an axial stack backing onto Dove Cottage. The house has been reorganised in the C20 associated with its subdivision and therefore its original layout is difficult to unravel. It seems likely that the Shelley Way Cottage occupies the C17 parlour, Dove Cottage occupies a service room (its stack may be secondary) and the older part of Higher Discombe is the kitchen wing. All 3 cottage are 2 storeys. Exterior: the Higher Discombe wing has an irregular 4-window front of C20 casements, most of them with glazing bars. Main front doorway at the left end behind a C20 porch containing a C20 door. At right end a secondary doorway contains a C20 french window. The south front of the crosswing has an overall 5-window front of various C20 casements with or without glazing bars. Both doorways contain C20 doors behind contemporary gabled porches. The roofs of both wings are gable-ended. Interior: much of the C17 fabric is hidden behind C20 plaster. In Shelley Way Cottage no carpentry detail is exposed but the fireplace is large and built of granite ashlar with a hollow-chamfered surround. In Dove Cottage there is a plain- chamfered axial beam supported on a crudely-finished oak bracket on the chimneybreast. The fireplace is granite rubble with a plain-chamfered oak lintel. Probably C17 oak doorframe from the main room to the outshot. In Higher Discombe the large kitchen fireplace has cheeks made from single slabs of granite ashlar, its oak lintel is ovolo-moulded with runout stops and it has 2 ovens, 1 a Barnstaple cloam oven. The crossbeam here has double ovolo mouldings with unusual plate stops. Nowhere was the roof inspected although the bases of straight principals show on the first floor; their scantling large enough to suggest that they are the original A- frame trusses.

Listing NGR: SX6594893391

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