Description

SX 9073-9173 BISHOPSTEIGNTON FORE STREET (north side),
Bishopsteignton
13/45 No 24 (Causeway Cottage) including
garden railings, gate-piers and
gate

GV II

House. Probably late C17/early C18 origins, refurbished in the C18, bay windows
probably mid C19. Colourwashed stuccoed stone ; red tiled roof with sprocketted
eaves, gabled at ends ; truncated projecting left end stack, right end stack with a
tall brick shaft, left end stack to rear left service block.
Plan: L plan ; a single depth main block to the front with 2 principal rooms, one on
either side of an entrance passage from which an axial stair rises to the rear ; rear
left service block, forming an overall L plan. To the rear right the house adjoins
Higher Green (q.v.).
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a central C20 part-glazed front
door with a rectangular fanlight ; canted bay windows to left and right, roofed with
wooden shingles with C19 12-pane sashes to the centre lights and 8-pane sashes to the
outer lights. 3 C19 16-pane sashes to the first floor.
Interior: C18 and C19 features, the front right room has a white marble chimneypiece,
shutters and a segmental arched recess on the rear wall ; the left hand room has an
open fireplace with a high timber lintel and the remains of bread ovens. Joinery
includes a stick baluster stair with a ramped handrail and C18 2-panel doors to the
first floor.
Roof: Pegged collar rafter roof trusses below later timbers, the collars lapped and
notched into the principal rafters.
The house is slightly set back from the street and low stone rubble garden walls with
iron railings with spear finials are included in the listing, also a garden gate
flanked by iron gate piers.
Documentation relating to the house is said to date from the 1730s (information from
owner).
An interesting evolved house in the village centre.

Listing NGR: SX9098773793

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618610

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)