Description

DARTINGTON TIGLEY SX76SE Lower Cobberton 1/166

II

House. Circa late C17 or early C18 extended in circa late C18. Local limestone rubble, rendered at rear. Welsh slate roof south gabled end to left and half-hipped end to right. Hipped roof rear wing. Rendered shaft to projecting front lateral stack. Plan: what survives is the lower end ie. the passage and lower room of what was a three or two-room plan house. The lower room has a front lateral stack. At the rear of the passage is a short circa late C18 wing and at the lower right end a C19 single storey one room addition. The demolished higher left end is said to have been used formerly as a mill and must have been converted to that use. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window range. Late C19 2-light casements with glazing bars. Passage doorway to left with remains of old wooden frame but with C20 glazed door and corrugated iron hood. Large projecting front lateral stack to right of centre with set-off and tall rendered shaft. To right at lower end a slightly advanced single storey addition with hipped scantle slate roof and late C19 two-light casement with glazing bars. A section of the front wall to left continues and is all that remains of the higher end of the house.#Rear: to left ground and first floor C19 4-light casements with glazing bars. To right projecting wing with later C19 first floor 2-light casement with glazing bars and large C20 ground floor metal frame casement. To left single storey addition has late C19 plank door and late C19 2-light casement with glazing bars in segmental arched opening. The higher left-hand gable end has disturbed masonry with rendered patch possibly where an axial stack to the former hall has been removed. Interior: passage blocked at rear. Solid wall between passage and main room. Main room has exposed heavy undressed joists and front lateral fireplace with cambered arch and dressed stone rubble jambs and without an oven. C20 stairs in rear wing. First floor has two C18 fielded 2 panel doors. Roof: 3 trusses with straight principal rafters and lapped and pegged collars.

Listing NGR: SX7576960868

External Links

• Wikidata Q26610570

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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