Carpenters Vallens Cottage
CARPENTERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163845
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Carpenters Vallens Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CARPENTERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163845
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Carpenters Vallens Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARPENTERS
- Statutory Address 2:
- VALLENS 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:
- CARPENTERS
- Statutory Address:
- VALLENS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Christow
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83670 85023
Details
CHRISTOW CHRISTOW SX 88 NW 2/94 Carpenters and Vallens Cottage 1.8 .83 GV II
2 adjoining houses with a common through passage. Circa early C16 origins, remodelled in the late C16/C17, the lower end (Vallens Cottage) with C20 alterations. Rendered cob and stone rubble slate roof, gabled at ends, end stacks and axial stack, the latter with a granite shaft. Plan: Very small 3 room and through passage plan, lower end (Vallens Cottage) to the right, hall stack backing onto pasage. The house originated as an open hall and the room over the inner room jetties into the hall ; newel stair adjacent to hall stack, second stair rises from hall against rear wall of inner room ; a rear left lean-to is probably an C18 or C19 addition. Lower end not inspected at time of survey (1987). Flat-roofed 2 storey C20 addition to rear of Vallens Cottage. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical - window front with 2 doorways on the front, the cross passage open with access to Carpenters from it. Fenestration of C19 and C20 timber casements. Interior: The granite ashlar back of the hall stack shows in the cross passage the remainder of the wall of plank and muntin screen ; rear doorway to passage consists of 2 curved timber blades forming pointed arched doorframe. The hall in Carpenters has an open fireplace with a hollow-chamfered jamb and lintel, the other jamb a re- used farm roller. A deep higher end jetty with chamfered joists oversails a plank and muntin screen with chamfered muntins with diagonal stops and a chamfered doorframe with a probably cut back shouldered head to the inner room, doorframe at right end leads to stair; hall crossbeam is chamfered with step stops. Inner room fireplace blocked. Roof: Not inspected at time of survey but said to have 2 blackened trusses, one at each end of the hall, ridge and rafters missing. The upper end truss has been a partition truss with some blacking on the inner room side (Laithwaite). An unusually small medieval house, group value with Lane End and Leigh Cottage. Laithwaite, M. Unpublished notes on Carpenters.
Listing NGR: SX8367085023
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85613
- 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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