3 and 4 Beaumont Cottages
BEAUMONT COTTAGES, 3 AND 4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333789
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 3 and 4 Beaumont Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BEAUMONT COTTAGES, 3 AND 4
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333789
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 3 and 4 Beaumont Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAUMONT COTTAGES, 3 AND 4
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:
- BEAUMONT COTTAGES, 3 AND 4
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gittisham
- National Grid Reference:
- SY1340898446
Details
GITTISHAM GITTISHAM (north side)
SY 19 NV
7/155 Nos 3 and 4 Beaumont Cottages
22.2.55
GV II
2 adjoining estate cottages. Late C16 origins, originally part of the Beaumont
charity, derived from a legacy of £800 left by Henry Beaumont of Combe House, who
died in 1590. The cottages were sold later and land was purchased from which
pensions are still paid. Stone rubble, rendered below the eaves; thatched roof with
plain ridge, gabled at the right end; right end stack and axial stack.
Plan: Sited to the rear of and parallel to Nos 1 and 2 Beaumont Cottages with a small
courtyard between. A single depth range, at one time 3 cottages, 2 cottages at time
of survey (1988). No 4 is a single cell plan with one heated room with a winder
stair adjacent to the stack, a small service room has been created at the rear by an
inserted partition. No 3 is presumably 2 rooms on plan and retains 2 front doors.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6 window front the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the
2 right hand first floor windows. 3 doors, to the left, right and centre, all late
C19/C20; 2- and 3-light C19 or early C20 casements with glazing bars.
Interior: No 4 inspected. Interior retains a deeply-chamfered step-stopped
crossbeam, a partly blocked fireplace retaining an early timber lintel and a winder
stair adjacent to the stack.
Roof: The right hand truss is an 'A' frame, presumably a replacement as the left hand
truss is a side-pegged jointed cruck truss. No access to the apex of the roof. No 3
is likely to retain good carpentry details and an early roof. These cottages form a
very good group round a courtyard with Nos 1 and 2 (q.v.), and make an important
contribution to a outstanding estate village which was described by Polwhele in 1790
as "esteemed the cleanliest in the country. It is not large but consists of many
trim cottages; and the people are remarkably neat in their houses and in themselves".
Polwhele, R. History of Devonshire, f.p. 1793, vol. II, p. 322.
Listing NGR: SY1340898446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87157
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Polwhele, R, History of Devonshire, (1793), 322
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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