Description

NORTH BOVEY NORTH BOVEY
SX 78 SW
4/228 September Cottage, including
- garden area wall in front

GV II

2 cottages, possibly originally 3. Circa early C18. Rendered granite rubble walls.
1 square granite rubble axial stack to left with drip course and weathering, gable
end stack to right, rendered, probably brick. Thatched roof gabled to right, and
hipped at left.
Plan partially obscured by subsequent alterations. Single heated room cottage to
left end with attached outbuilding and either 2 single room cottages or one 2-room
cottage. All direct entry, axial stack serves a fireplaces either side. Outshut
built on front of right-hand cottage for a shopfront.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front, all 3-light probably early C20 casements
with glazing bars except for centre right ground and 1st floor which are 2-light.
Rendered stone outshut projecting from right with slate roof and bow window with
small panes. Rendered lean-to porches to right of centre and to left with C20
stable doors. Single storey stone outbuilding attached to left gable end. 3
regularly spaced windows to rear, 2-light C19/C20 casements in old small openings
and one very small single light window just under the eaves to the right.
Interior: right-hand cottage (south) now single room running the length of the house
with brick wall partitioning of kitchen at rear. Fireplace at either end of main
room, gable end one has rough wooden lintel, axial one has large unchamfered granite
lintel. Adjoining cottage also has kitchen subdivided at rear, fireplace has rough
wooden lintel.
Including granite rubble garden wall directly in front of house.

Listing NGR: SX7396883887

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461806

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)