Description

TORQUAY

SX8963 COCKINGTON LANE, Cockington
885-1/16/356 (South West side)
20/11/52 Nos.1 AND 2
Lanscombe Farm Cottages including
butterwell adjoining south-east end
of front
(Formerly Listed as:
COCKINGTON LANE, Cockington
Nos.1 AND 2
Lanscombe Cottages)

GV II

Pair of cottages, former farmhouse. Second half of C17 with
various later alterations. Front plastered, rest is local
stone rubble: older stacks with stone chimneyshafts raised in
brick; thatch roof.
PLAN: The main block faces south-east, end onto the road with
SW end terraced into the hill slope. Present layout derives
from subdivision to cottages but probable origins as
3-room-and-cross-passage plan. Lower (NE) room with projecting
gable end stack. Other side of passage is hall with projecting
rear lateral stack, and at upper end small inner room now
converted to stair hall. Secondary 1-room plan rear blocks
project to rear of each end, both with end stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Plastered front has 3-window front of
timber casements with glazing bars, the first-floor windows
rising into the thatch eaves. The 2 front doorways both
contain C20 plank doors in plain solid timber frames. Roof is
gable-ended to right and hipped to left. Right end stack with
stone mounting block attached. C20 brick addition on
south-west side wall and ground floor window to left of it
possibly late C17-early C18 timber flat-faced mullion
casement. North east rear block has hipped roof, and
south-west rear block has gable-ended roof.
INTERIOR: Plain carpentry detail where exposed including plain
timber lintels to fireplaces. Lower side of passage is a late
C17 plank-and-muntin screen with scratch-moulded muntins and a
contemporary 3-fielded panel door. The bases of relatively
slender principals show on first floor. Large oven projecting
to hall stack now inside a rear lean-to.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: At south-east end of front wall there is
the stone housing of a butterwell.
Lanscombe Cottages form part of a group of exceptionally
attractive group of listed buildings in an unspoilt village
and adjoining Cockington Park.

Listing NGR: SX8946863725

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503520

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990