Red Deer Cottage
RED DEER COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215411
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Red Deer Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RED DEER COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215411
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Red Deer Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED DEER 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:
- RED DEER COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Twitchen
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7889030483
Details
TWITCHEN
SS 7830-7930
17/218 Red Deer Cottage
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GV II
House, latterly divided. Mid-C17 with late C20 alterations. Painted stone rubble to
front and sides, mainly rendered cob to rear. Gable-ended asbestos-slate roof,
formerly thatched. Rendered stone stacks with weatherings.
Plan: C17 three-room plan, facing south. End rooms with integral end stacks, and
unheated central room. Central entrance and straight staircase. House latterly
divided (see blocked front doorway). Eaves raised in C20. Two storeys.
Exterior: Asymmetrically-fenestrated front with 4 windows to first floor and 3 to
ground floor; mainly C18 three-light wooden casements (some C20 replacements), with
metal opening lights. C20 leading. Right-hand ground-floor window possibly C17 (see
chamfered mullions inside). C20 stable-type door between first and second windows
from left, with C19 gabled porch on shaped brackets. C20 two-light wooden casement
to right of door replaces former doorway (see straight joints below). Strip buttress
to right-hand end of front wall (possibly the result of partial rebuilding). Semi-
circular bread oven with slated top to right-hand gable end.
Interior: C17 chamfered cross beam in right-hand ground-floor room with stepped
runout stops. C17 open stone fireplace to right-hand end has chamfered wooden lintel
with stepped runout stops and bread oven. Probably C17 front window with mullions
chamfered internally. Left-hand ground-floor room with adzed rough spine beam and
wall beam to rear. Window seat to front wall. Open stone fireplace to left with
chamfered wooden lintel and bread oven with C19 cast-iron door. Roofspace not
inspected.
The present owner (October 1987) reports that before the C20 alterations the front
wall consisted of rubble to ground floor and cob to first floor with rubble piers
supporting ends of roof trusses.
Listing NGR: SS7889030483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400623
- 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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