Buttercup Cottage
BUTTERCUP COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326108
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Buttercup Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERCUP COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326108
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Buttercup Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTERCUP COTTAGE
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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:
- BUTTERCUP COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Tawton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 65157 93554
Details
SX 6493 - 6593
8/246
SOUTH TAWTON
SOUTH ZEAL
Buttercup Cottage
GII
House.Early C16 with major later C16 and C17 improvements,part was divided off in the early C20,modernised circa 1970.Plastered walls,probably granite stone rubble,maybe with cob;disused granite stacks;thatch roof.Plan and development:two-room plan cottage with wide through passage facing south-west and set back from the street.Originally it was a three-room-and-through-passage plan house but,in the early C20,the right end room (the former service end room)was divided off and rebuilt as a separate cottage.Thus the passage is the former through passage,the room to right of it the former hall with its large axial stack backing onto the passage,and the small inner room has a late C19-early C20 axial stack backing onto the hall.Originally this was an open hall house,open to the roof from end to end,divided by low partitions and heated by an open hearth fire.The first improvement was probably the flooring over of the inner room but there is no evidence of this apparent.Hall fireplace is a mid or late C16 insertion and hall was floored in the early or mid C17.House is two storeys with secondary service outshots to rear.Exterior:irregular three-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars.The passage front doorway contains wide C20 double doors.Roof runs along the building between the adjoining houses.Interior:hall has a granite ashlar fireplace with an oak lintel,the soffit of which has been cut back.It contains a C19 oven.The axial beam is soffit-chamfered with step stops.No early carpentry detail shows in the inner room. Original roof over hall and inner room is carried on some type of cruck trusses(the lower sections are plastered over).Cambered collars are set unusually high.The whole of this roof structure including purlins,common rafters and the underside of the original rye thatch is smoke-blackened from the open hearth fire.Buttercup Cottage was formerly called Golden Pitts and according to the Devon SMR stands in the vicinity of an early cemetery.South Zeal is special being one of the few medieval boroughs in Devon where a significant number of its C16 and C17 houses still survive.
Listing NGR: SX6515793554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95048
- 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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