DRAGON COTTAGE HONEYSUCKLE COTTAGE RICHMOND COTTAGE ROSE COTT

DRAGON COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326639
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: DRAGON COTTAGE HONEYSUCKLE COTTAGE RICHMOND COTTAGE ROSE COTT
Statutory Address:: DRAGON COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326639
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: DRAGON COTTAGE HONEYSUCKLE COTTAGE RICHMOND COTTAGE ROSE COTT
Statutory Address 1:: DRAGON COTTAGE
Statutory Address 2:: HONEYSUCKLE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 3:: RICHMOND COTTAGE
Statutory Address 4:: ROSE COTT

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DRAGON COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: HONEYSUCKLE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: RICHMOND COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: ROSE COTT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Giles in the Wood
National Grid Reference:: SS 53795 18011

Details

ST GILES KINGSCOTT SS 51 NW IN THE WOOD 18/215 Richmond Cottage, Dragon Cottage, - Rose Cott and Honeysuckle Cottage

GV II

4 adjoining cottages. Late C17 or C18. Local stone rubble; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick ; thatch roof. Plan: 1-plan building containing 4 cottages. The main block faces south. At the right (east) end is Honeysuckle Cottage which has a 1-room plan with a gable-end stack. Late C19 single storey outbuildings adjoining the end have now been brought into domestic use to provide kitchen and service rooms for Honeysuckle Cottage. Next left is Rose Cottage which has a 2-room plan and an axial stack between the rooms serves back to back fireplaces. At the left (west) end is 1 more room ; it belongs to Dragon Cottage and has a projecting rear lateral stack. Another small room of Dragon Cottage occupies the adjoining part of a crosswing which projects forward at right angles from this end. The rest of this crosswing is occupied by Richmond Cottage which has a 2-room plan and gable-end stack. This building has been re-arranged more than once since it was built. Until circa 1985 the main block had 2 2-room plan cottages, one each side of the central axial stack. It is tempting to suggest that the building originated as a lobby entrance plan farmhouse but there is no evidence for this. All 4 cottages are 2 storeys. Exterior: The main block has an irregular 5-window front of late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. 3-window front to the crosswing with similar casements. All the cottage doorways contain various C20 doors, and Rose Cottage doorway has a thatched hood. Doorway to Honeysuckle Cottage is into the converted outbuilding to right of the main block. Both roofs are gable-ended. Interiors have plain carpentry detail where exposed. The roof space is not accessible although the bases of straight principals show at first floor level. In fact those to the west of the central axial stack are of heavier scantling than those to east. Also the eastern 2 fireplaces include brick. Maybe the eastern 2 rooms of the main block are secondary. Until the mid C20 this building was known as The Barracks which local tradition associates with the Civil War. These 4 cottages form part of an attractive group of buildings in the hamlet of Kingscott.

Listing NGR: SS5379518011

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Legacy System number:: 91834
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.