Listing Text

BARNSTAPLE

SS5534SE BULL HILL, Pilton
684-1/2/318 (South side)
31/12/73 Abbey Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
BULL HILL, Pilton
(South side)
Cottage next to, and North of, Abbey
House (opposite Bull House))

GV II

Cottage next to, and N of, Abbey House (qv). Probably late C17
in origin, but with later alterations. Stone rubble and brick
construction, front elevation rendered, right end wall
handmade brick; slate roof, gabled at ends; right end and
axial stacks with brick shafts. Sited fronting directly onto
Bull Hill and at the entrance of Pilton Abbey (qv).
Single-depth plan with a single-storey outshut at the right
end. Concave front wall suggests that left end may have been
built at different date from remainder.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window range. Recessed C20 front
door to left of centre. 3 ground- and 4 first-floor 6 over
one-pane sash windows. Door on front into right-hand outshut
has 6 flush panels.
INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Reed suggests that this may have been the
site bought by David Green, fuller, of Pilton, from Lord
Howard of Effingham in 1611 for »100.
(Reed MA: Pilton, its Past and Present: Barnstaple: 1985-:
160).

Listing NGR: SS5561134097