Description

SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE LONGMEADOW ROAD (north side)
Lympstone
5/39
- Vine Cottage
GV
II

Detached house. Late C16 or early Cl7. Plastered cob on stone footings; hipped
thatched roof. Formerly a 3-room, cross-passage plan house, the service end to the
left of the passage, with a small service-end rear wing. Service end heated by an
external end stack, hall by a rear external lateral stack; the inner room, originally
unheated, received an internal end stack, probably in the C19; all stacks with brick
shafts. 2 storeys.
Front: 3-window range; 2-light casement windows to first floor, lintels at eaves
level; 2-light casement window to each of the ground floor rooms. Leanto pantiled
open porch. Wide fielded panel door.
Rear wing under catslide, with one small casement window to the inner face. Another
2-light casement window to first floor of main elevation between wing and hall stack.
Interior not inspected; the ceiling beams look post C17; C19 joinery details visible.

Listing NGR: SX9994084094

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603566

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)