Description

SX 69 SW BELSTONE BELSTONE

3/19 Andrews Cottage

GV II

House, former farmhouse (possibly a former Dartmoor longhouse). Mid or late C17,
possibly earlier origins, modernised circa 1980. Granite stone rubble on boulder
footings, large roughly-dressed granite quoins, and some plastered cob along the
wall tops; granite stack with plastered brick top; thatch roof.
Plan and development: This may have originated as a 3-room-and-through-passage plan
Dartmoor longhouse built on a flat site facing south-east. If so the passage front
doorway has been removed. The shippon at the right (north-eastern) end is now used
as a garage. The putative hall has an axial stack backing onto the site of the
passage. There is now no internal access between hall and lower end. Now a front
door leads directly into the unheated inner room which also contains a straight
flight stair. This is a difficult house to interpret. It could easily have been a
Dartmoor longhouse in which case it probably developed from an open hall house.
Alternatively there is some evidence (but inconclusive) that the shippon end was
added to a 2-room plan house. 2 storeys.
Exterior: The house part to left (the putative hall and inner room) have an
irregular 2-window frqnt of C20 casements with glazing bars, the upper ones with
thatch eyebrows over. The front door, in the middle of this section, is also C20
and part-glazed. The right end (shippon) section is blind and shows no obvious
evidence of a blocked front passage doorway. The roof is half-hipped to left and
gable-ended to right. C20 garage door in the right end wall. The rear wall has
similar C20 casements to the front. Here there is a doorway in the position of the
rear passage doorway. There is a hayloft loading hatch directly above and to left
of it a slit window to the shippon.
Interior: has plain carpentry detail and the hall fireplace is granite ashlar but
plain. The roof, including that over the shippon, is made up of A-frame trusses
with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars.

Listing NGR: SX6203893649

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462218

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)