Hensleigh Cottage
HENSLEIGH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384714
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Hensleigh Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HENSLEIGH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384714
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Hensleigh Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENSLEIGH 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:
- HENSLEIGH COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 93954 12654
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SW HENSLEIGH
848-1/4/85 Hensleigh Cottage
14/12/72
(Formerly Listed as:
LONGDRAG HILL
Hensleigh Cottage)
GV II
Estate house, possibly built as a dower house. Early/mid C18,
remodelled early/mid C19.
MATERIALS: incised stucco and render; dry slate hipped roof;
rendered stacks, each stack with 4 old square clay pots: 2
lateral rear stacks and an axial stack central to rear wing.
PLAN: original plan with 2-rooms at the front flanking a
central entrance leading to stair hall within a rear wing at
right angles, plus rear outshut on the right; extended by
1-room plan rear of this, probably mid C19, and by small wing
at right angles to this, probably later C19; there is a C20
conservatory opposite this, left of the main wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window front. Late C19
4-pane hornless sashes within moulded architraves, the sashes
set flush with the wall surface (as are the other windows).
Central doorway with original doorcase with Tuscan pilasters
and open pediment; cobweb fanlight over original fielded
panelled door.
In front of the doorway is a C19 Tuscan porch with the sides
of muntin and plank construction (compare Lower Bradley
Farmhouse qv).
Left-hand return has a late C19 canted bay; 4-window-range
elevation of wing set back left of this has some early and mid
C19 12-pane sashes, some with small horns.
There are more early and mid C19 sashes and casements lighting
the rear outshut and right-hand wall of wing, and there is
another original door with fielded panels into the wing near
the angle.
INTERIOR: original panelled right-hand room with fielded
panels and moulded cornice, doorcases, panelled doors,
elliptical-arched niche and chimneypiece; original oak dog-leg
staircase with turned balusters, ramped handrail and panelled
newels.
There are also some good early and mid C19 features including:
panelled window shutters with inner beads and moulded plaster
ceiling cornice to left-hand room and moulded cornice and
panelled shutters to room behind. Bay window to front
left-hand room has vertically-sliding shutters. Service stair
at rear is mid/late C19 with stick balusters.
Hensleigh Cottage is particularly notable for its C18 panelled
room and staircase, also, the design feature of having the
windows flush with the wall surface is a rare survival of C17
and early C18 practice (compare Hensleigh Farmhouse qv).
Listing NGR: SS9395412654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485171
- 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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