Description

DARTMOUTH

SX8750 WEEKE HILL, Warfleet
673-1/6/304 (West side)
09/04/92 Rock Cottage

II

House. c1820-30, some C20 modernisation. Local stone rubble
with brick dressings, slate-hung on the street front, plaster
stripped from the garden front; end and lateral stacks with
brick chimneyshafts and old pots; slate roof.
PLAN: Double-depth, 2 rooms wide, central entrance passage
with stairs off between the front and back left rooms.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Near-symmetrical 3-window front, mostly
12-pane sashes but right bay has ground-floor 8-pane sash and
first-floor blind window. Central round-headed doorway
contains a part-glazed 6-panel door under a fanlight with
glazing bars. Evidence around doorway for removed gabled
porch, but it was probably secondary. Deep eaves on shaped
timber brackets. Right (east) garden front was originally
plastered and is a 3-window range of 12-pane sashes, including
a blind ground-floor centre window. Low segmental brick arches
revealed on this side.
INTERIOR: Original detail includes open-string stair with
stick balusters, panelled doors and coved cornices to the
principal rooms. Original chimneypieces have been removed.
Cellar with external steps down from the rear has brick vault.
Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX8799250124

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492091

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]