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Leonard Moor Cottages

A Grade II Listed Building in Burlescombe, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.9101 / 50°54'36"N

Longitude: -3.3499 / 3°20'59"W

OS Eastings: 305190

OS Northings: 113164

OS Grid: ST051131

Mapcode National: GBR LP.QZ13

Mapcode Global: FRA 36WP.LS0

Plus Code: 9C2RWM62+32

Entry Name: Leonard Moor Cottages

Listing Date: 17 March 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1147447

English Heritage Legacy ID: 95862

ID on this website: 101147447

Location: Mid Devon, EX15

County: Devon

District: Mid Devon

Civil Parish: Burlescombe

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Burlescombe St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


BURLESCOMBE
ST 01 SE
9/10 Nos 1 and 2 Leonard Moor Cottages
-
- II
Pair of cottages, part once used as a toll house. Circa 1810, possibly enlarged
circa 1840. Local stone rubble with larger dressed quoins, part is pebbledash with
exposed rusticated quoins, some other stone ashlar detail; stone rubble stacks
topped with C19 brick, one of them plastered; slate roof.
Plan: pair of roadside cottages facing north-west onto the road. The main block
has a 5-room plan overall, the outer pairs of rooms heated by axial stacks between
serving back-to-back fireplaces. Central front 2-storey porch. No.1 is the right-
hand cottage and has a 3-room plan and includes the porch. No. 2 to the left, has a
2-room plan. The evidence is not clear but it may be that the outer end rooms are
secondary and that there was originally a 3-room plan cottage here. Both cottages
are 2 storeys.
Exterior: the main front is blind and dominated by the gabled porch. This has an
ashlar round-headed outer arch with projecting keystone, and it now contains a C20
plank door with strap hinges. Directly above is a Hamstone plaque inscribed "COMMON
INCLOSED 1810", and above this a painted (probably stone) gothic-style 3-light
window with a trefoil-beaded lights, sunken spandrels and hoodmould. The front here
is a crazy paving effect of water-rolled stones and includes a more or less
symmetrical pattern of geological specimens. Either side is pebbledashed with
exposed quoins and containing a ground floor lancet. The pebbledash continues each
side across the first bay of the main block ending at a vertical band of rusticated
quoins. Each of these bays contains a blind oculus defined by rusticated quoins and
blocked with a round boulder. The rear wall contains the windows and doorways. It
is a nearly symmetrical 5-window front overall of C19 and C20 replacement casements
containing rectangular panes of glass. Both doors are C20, that in No. 1 in the
central porch.
Interior: not inspected.
This is an interesting and idiosyncratic building. It was probably erected 1810-11
by Richard Hall Clarke of Bridwell following the enclosure of Leonard Moor.
Source: Devon SMR.


Listing NGR: ST0519013164

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