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Latitude: 50.7251 / 50°43'30"N
Longitude: -3.4527 / 3°27'9"W
OS Eastings: 297557
OS Northings: 92731
OS Grid: SX975927
Mapcode National: GBR P3.0WLC
Mapcode Global: FRA 37N5.8P9
Plus Code: 9C2RPGGW+3W
Entry Name: Virginia Cottage
Listing Date: 19 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1164960
English Heritage Legacy ID: 86198
ID on this website: 101164960
Location: Sowton, East Devon, EX5
County: Devon
District: East Devon
Civil Parish: Sowton
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Sowton St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Cottage
SOWTON SOWTON LANE (south side)
SX 99 SE
1/62 Virginia Cottage
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- II
House. Early C17. Roughcast cob on stone footings; gabled-end slate roof. 3-room plan house, the heated rooms to either end, with an unheated service room between; there is now a passage between service room and the hall (to the left) which probably has been inserted. External end stack heats hall; internal end stack heats right-hand room; both have brick shafts. 2 storeys.
Front: 4-window range; the outer first floor windows under weatherboarded gables,the 2 towards the centre both under a larger weatherboarded gable; C19 2 or 3-light casements. 3-light casement window to each of the principal ground floor rooms. Doorway under leanto slate porch.
Interior: not inspected. Dr Alcock notes one and one half bean to hall, chamfered with scroll stops; fireplaces lintel similarly decorated. The other heated room has 1 chamfered beam and half beam, with rounded stops; fireplace lintel, chamfered with scroll stops. Remains of jointed crucks (5 in all, largely dismantled in 1940).
N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), pp 204-5,
pl.9; fig.12.
Listing NGR: SX9755792731
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