Pitt Cottage
PITT COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334168
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pitt Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PITT COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334168
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pitt Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PITT COTTAGE
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:
- PITT COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coffinswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 88742 68719
Details
SX 86 NE COFFINSWELL COFFINSWELL 3/92 Pitt Cottage - GV II House, formerly farmhouse. Early C16, altered in C17 and again in C20 when it was modernised. Rendered cob walls. Asbestos slate roof with gable ends, formerly hipped to right end. Rendered rubble axial stack at centre with brick shaft. Probably late C19/early C20 inserted brick shaft at front of right-hand side. Originally 3 room and through-passage plan open to the roof timbers throughout. Hall possibly part-ceiled in mid C16, completely ceiled-in circa early C17 with hall stack inserted backing onto the passage. Unheated lower and inner room. At one stage the lower room reputedly used as outbuilding. Hall and inner room are now one. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window facade, 4 on ground floor. All C20 1, 2 and 3- light casements with glazing bars. First floor windows are in small openings. Door to passage at right of centre is early C20 plank and glazed. Interior: hall has chamfered half beam over fireplace, with stop embedded in plaster. Another half beam possibly supports a jetty as the ceiling is lower behind it. It is chamfered with hollow step and notch stop. 6 moulded panel door to hall. Hall fireplace lintel has been renewed. 3 original roof trusses survive. The 2 at lower end are side-pegged jointed crucks. They originally had morticed collars and have threaded purlins. Morticed apex with diagonal ridge. Over the lower end the original common rafters also survive with the now redundant hip post. The original timbers are all smoke-blackened throughout proving that the house was originally open to the roof from end to end. The exterior of this house belies its early origins and despite substantial internal modernisation the survival of the early roof structure makes it of considerable interest.
Listing NGR: SX8874268719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84797
- 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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