Description

HARTLAND
SS 22 SW

3/149 St Leonards Cottage (north)
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GV II*

Cottage formerly chapel. Late C15 or early C16, converted to cottage probably in
C18 or early C19. Stone rubble walls roughly coursed with a little cob at the top
of the front wall. Thatch roof hipped to left end, gabled to right. Brick axial
stack.
Plan: originally probably single cell chapel open to the roof, its plan was
completely altered by conversion into a cottage of 2 rooms, the left-hand room
heated, with an outbuilding beyond the stack. The building may have been extended
to the left of this at the time since its original roof structure does not continue
all the way along.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1-window front of circa early C20 2-light
casements to left of centre on each floor, the 1st floor one is a half dormer with
small gable in the thatch above. C20 plank door to right. All these openings have
flat stone arches over. C19 plank door to outbuilding to left.
Rear elevation has the reveals and chamfered granite surround for an original window
on the ground floor to centre. The central mullion and most of the head has gone
but evidently there were arched lights. Further to the left is evidence of a
blocked doorway. C19 2-light casement on 1st floor to left of centre.
Interior: the only surviving original feature is a wagon roof on the first floor
with moulded ribs and chamfered wooden wall-plate.
This is a very rare survival of a building which can be identified as a late
medieval chapel and forms a very interesting group with the adjacent house (q.v).
In the mid C19 parts of stone tombs or graves were dug up in the ground to the west
of the building.
Source: The Ancient Chapels of Hartland - R Pearse Chope: Hartland and West Country
Chronicle May 1915

Listing NGR: SS2488923884

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536254

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)