Feoffee Cottages and Church Cottage
FEOFFEE COTTAGES AND CHURCH COTTAGE, 1-10, BULL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385079
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Feoffee Cottages and Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FEOFFEE COTTAGES AND CHURCH COTTAGE, 1-10, BULL HILL
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- Date:
- 2004-07-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/12629/20
- Rights:
- © Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385079
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Feoffee Cottages and Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FEOFFEE COTTAGES AND CHURCH COTTAGE, 1-10, BULL HILL
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:
- FEOFFEE COTTAGES AND CHURCH COTTAGE, 1-10, BULL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55670 34105
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE BULL HILL, Pilton
684-1/2/317 (North side)
31/12/73 Nos.1-10 (Consec) Feoffee Cottages
and Church Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
BULL HILL, Pilton
(North side)
Nos.1-10 (Consecutive)
Feeofee Cottages 1-10(consec) &
Church Cottage(at rear, opp. Church
of St Mary))
GV II
Row of almshouses "enlarged and rebuilt by the Reverend Thomas
Boweller, 20 May 1849" (wall plaque). Probably C17 in origin.
Local brown slatestone with some purple stone dressings and
cream sandstone windows; natural slate roofs; stacks with tall
stone shafts (some octagonal) with quoins, brattished cornices
and some old chimney-pots. Tudor style. Sited along the S
boundary of the churchyard and returning to the E giving an
overall L-plan with access to the Church of St Mary (qv)
through a tall cartway in the main range. The almshouses are
divided into 7 separately-roofed units. Church Cottage has
first-floor rear access from the churchyard path.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:3:2:1:2:1-window range, facing down
Pilton Street and partly out Bull Hill; range to E has
1:1-window range. Gables and gabled dormers to front, 2-, 3-
and 4-light stone mullioned windows with chamfered mullions,
some with hoodmoulds, all glazed with diamond leaded panes;
Tudor-arched hollow-chamfered doorways with plank, cover-strip
and stud doors. Gabled block, broken forward, contains cartway
with large moulded Tudor archway with purple voussoirs and a
stepped 4-light window above with a hoodmould. Interior of
cartway has moulded beams and joists.
The right return has a projecting lateral stack with offsets
and returns with a hipped roof block with similar stack at the
end. The rear elevation is also very attractive with mullioned
windows and gables. Church Cottage is painted white on the
rear with a rear lateral stack with brick shaft. Date plaque
on rear gable of cartway.
INTERIORS: partially inspected. Features seem either C19 or
C20.
In a crucial position in Pilton and an important foil to the
Church of St Mary.
(Reed MA: Pilton, its Past and Present: Barnstaple: 1985-:
151).
Listing NGR: SS5568434102
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485540
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reed, M A, Pilton, its Past and Present, (1985), 151
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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