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Rosemary Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Otterton, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.6601 / 50°39'36"N

Longitude: -3.2995 / 3°17'58"W

OS Eastings: 308242

OS Northings: 85300

OS Grid: SY082853

Mapcode National: GBR P7.72K5

Mapcode Global: FRA 37ZB.8CZ

Plus Code: 9C2RMP62+35

Entry Name: Rosemary Cottage

Listing Date: 30 June 1961

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1334069

English Heritage Legacy ID: 86359

ID on this website: 101334069

Location: Otterton, East Devon, EX9

County: Devon

District: East Devon

Civil Parish: Otterton

Built-Up Area: Otterton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Otterton St Michael

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


OTTERTON FORE STREET (north side),
SY 0885
Otterton
7/158 Rosemary Cottage
30.6.61
GV II

House, 2 cottages until circa 1975 but was originally a single house. Early C17,
modernised circa 1975. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; cob stacks with
plastered C20 brick tops; thatch roof. Former rear coach house of plastered brick
with tile roof.
L-shaped house. The main block faces south-south-east, say south, onto Fore
Street. It has a 2-room plan with gable-end stacks. The right (eastern) room is
larger than the left room and it seems likely that there was a through passage on
the left side of the crosswall. Present stairs rise across rear wall of left room
but the original stair was probably alongside the fireplace in the right room. 2-
room rear block at right angles behind right room. The small inner room here may
be C17 but the outer was built in the C19 as a coach house but has now been brought
into domestic use. All 2 storeys.
Irregular 3-window front of C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. 2 front
doorways, 1 to each of the former cottages. The original doorway is that left of
centre which now contains a C20 stable-type door and a contemporary trellis porch.
The secondary doorway right of centre contains a C20 glazed door. The roof is
gable-ended; so too is the rear block.
Interior is largely the result of the circa 1975 modernisation but the main fabric
of the early C17 house is virtually intact. The roof and crossbeams divide the
house into 3 bays, 2 to the larger right room and 1 to the left room, and divided by
a full height oak-framed crosswall (now plastered over). The crossbeam and half
beams are all soffit-chamfered with step stops. The right room fireplace was
originally cob but was rebuilt circa 1976 in brick retaining the soffit-chamfered
oak lintel. The left room fireplace is completely blocked but, since it seems to
take up the entire end wall, is thought to be a kitchen fireplace. The truss over
the right room is a side-pegged jointed cruck. The roofspace is inaccessible but
the roof is thought to be clean.
Rosemary Cottage is a single phase early C17 house and an interesting survival of a
house of that time of relatively modest proportions. It is also one of a number of
attractive listed buildings along Otterton Fore Street.


Listing NGR: SY0824285300

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