Potters Cottage
POTTERS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386067
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Potters Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- POTTERS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386067
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Potters Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- POTTERS 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:
- POTTERS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Monkton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 25296 29241
Details
ST 22 NE
439/6/10007
WEST MONKTON
Potters Cottage
GV
II
House. Circa early C17, remodelled C19. Stone rubble, plastered cob above. Bridgwater tile roof with gabled ends. Brick gable-end stack.
PLAN: The remaining high end of a 3-room plan house, the putative lower left [SW] end and cross-passage of which was demolished probably in the C19 when it was remodelled as a 2-room plan cottage. Comprising a large room to the left, formerly the hall, heated from a gable-end stack, and a small unheated room to the right, which would have been the inner room.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window SE front; 2 windows on ground floor and 1 window on first floor; small C19 2-light casements with glazing bars; doorway on left with plank door and canopy. Similar casement at rear and on SW end where there is a projecting semi-circular oven.
INTERIOR: Deeply chamfered cross-beam and edge-beams with hollow step stops, and unchamfered joists; plank partition between hall and inner room with scratch moulding on the hall side. Large fireplace with brick oven and curing chamber. Plank doors. Jointed cruck roof truss with collar, purlins and diagonally-set ridgepiece; later common-rafters.
Listing NGR: ST2529629241
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471489
- 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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