Rosemary Cottage
ROSEMARY COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334069
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Rosemary Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROSEMARY COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334069
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Rosemary Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSEMARY COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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:
- ROSEMARY COTTAGE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 08242 85300
Details
OTTERTON FORE STREET (north side), SY 0885 Otterton 7/158 Rosemary Cottage 30.6.61 GV II
House, 2 cottages until circa 1975 but was originally a single house. Early C17, modernised circa 1975. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; cob stacks with plastered C20 brick tops; thatch roof. Former rear coach house of plastered brick with tile roof. L-shaped house. The main block faces south-south-east, say south, onto Fore Street. It has a 2-room plan with gable-end stacks. The right (eastern) room is larger than the left room and it seems likely that there was a through passage on the left side of the crosswall. Present stairs rise across rear wall of left room but the original stair was probably alongside the fireplace in the right room. 2- room rear block at right angles behind right room. The small inner room here may be C17 but the outer was built in the C19 as a coach house but has now been brought into domestic use. All 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front of C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. 2 front doorways, 1 to each of the former cottages. The original doorway is that left of centre which now contains a C20 stable-type door and a contemporary trellis porch. The secondary doorway right of centre contains a C20 glazed door. The roof is gable-ended; so too is the rear block. Interior is largely the result of the circa 1975 modernisation but the main fabric of the early C17 house is virtually intact. The roof and crossbeams divide the house into 3 bays, 2 to the larger right room and 1 to the left room, and divided by a full height oak-framed crosswall (now plastered over). The crossbeam and half beams are all soffit-chamfered with step stops. The right room fireplace was originally cob but was rebuilt circa 1976 in brick retaining the soffit-chamfered oak lintel. The left room fireplace is completely blocked but, since it seems to take up the entire end wall, is thought to be a kitchen fireplace. The truss over the right room is a side-pegged jointed cruck. The roofspace is inaccessible but the roof is thought to be clean. Rosemary Cottage is a single phase early C17 house and an interesting survival of a house of that time of relatively modest proportions. It is also one of a number of attractive listed buildings along Otterton Fore Street.
Listing NGR: SY0824285300
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86359
- 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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