Clystbeare and Clystbeare Cottages
CLYSTBEARE AND CLYSTBEARE COTTAGES, SOWTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334000
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Clystbeare and Clystbeare Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- CLYSTBEARE AND CLYSTBEARE COTTAGES, SOWTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334000
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Clystbeare and Clystbeare Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLYSTBEARE AND CLYSTBEARE COTTAGES, SOWTON LANE
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:
- CLYSTBEARE AND CLYSTBEARE COTTAGES, SOWTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sowton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 97743 92681
Details
SOWTON SOWTON LANE (east side) SX 99 SE 1/49 Clystbeare and - 26.9.85 Clystbeare Cottages
- II
2 cottages, originally a single farmhouse, but at some time serving as 4 or 5 cottages. Probably an early C17 core with later C17 additions (a room to the left, and a rear wing to the right), and C19 extensions. Plastered cob, on stone footings, with brick stacks and shafts; hipped thatched roof. Originally a 2-room house with no passage, extended to the left and to the rear in the late C17. Dr Alcock has discussed problems of dating, and it appears that the 2 datestones on 2 stacks (1656 and 1657 respectively) are not insitu, and the brickwork suggests a later date in the C17: these stacks serve the rear wing, and (probably) the left-hand room, although this apparently is not at all clear. The earlier core was served by an external end stack that heated the right-hand room. 2 storeys. Front: regular 4-window range ; the first floor windows are all of 3 lights with eyebrow eaves : 5 ground floor windows; all C20 timber casements; no doors. Rear: one early C17 2-light window under the eaves; otherwise C19 or C20 fenestration to main range and the rear wing, which has a leanto attached to its inner side. The rear external stack is very broad with very large set-offs. Interior not inspected : Dr Alcock notes 2 ground floor ceiling beams, chamfered and unstopped. N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans. Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), p.213; pl. 14; figs. 15 and 17.
Listing NGR: SX9774392681
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86185
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 94, (1962), 213
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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