Description

CREDITON

SS834000 CHURCH STREET
672-1/6/18 (West side (off))
19/03/51 Priory Cottage including garden
walls to the south east

GV II

House, including garden wall. Early C18 or earlier, remodelled
and extended in the circa 1930s. Roughcast cob; thatched roof
with secondary ornamental ridge, hipped at ends; internal rear
lateral stack with brick shaft; front right corner stack of
the 1930s.
Plan: single depth, 3 rooms wide. The right (east) end is a
2-phase addition: single-storey lean-to, probably C18, to
right (east) end raised to 2 storeys in the circa 1930s
(photograph in the possession of the owner); 1930s lean-to
addition at the left end
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front, the eaves
thatch eyebrowed over the first floor windows. Approximately
central entrance, 1930s tiled porch on timber posts. 2- and
3-light 1930s iron casement windows with diamond panes except
ground floor left which has leaded panes. The rear elevation
retains 2 C18 windows: one to the former lean-to is 2-light
with a moulded pegged frame, and one to the large east end
room which is a 2-light casement with a pegged frame and
square leaded panes.Wall to the south east is on stone
footings and has corrugated iron coping. Libbet's well (q.v.)
is built below the wall.
Interior: Both west end rooms have probably C18 cross beams:
plain to the right hand (east) room and wainey to the west end
room. Original plaster survives on both ground and first
floor. First floor axial corridor and joinery 1930s in a
vernacular manner. Roof: Pegged A-frame trusses with X apexes
of an early C18 character. There are no rafters but
substantial battens instead.

Listing NGR: SS8352800285

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491609

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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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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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living