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Summary

Two small cottages occupying what was originally a single house dating to the 16th century.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II*) 1328747: MALTHOUSE COTTAGE ST MARYS COTTAGE

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SY08NE39
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY08NE/72
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (Built, XVI - 1501 AD (Between) to 1600 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1983, 605/10-12 (Ground Photograph). SDV340095.

Child, P., 1983, St. Mary's, High Street, Newton Poppleford (Un-published). SDV340093.

St. Mary's, Newton Poppleford. St. Mary's Cottage and the house next door are the surviving portions (ie. hall and inner room) of a three-roomed cross-passage house. The cross-passage and service rooms having now disappeared. Recent building work has revealed a stud and panel screen dividing the hall from the inner room. This was painted on the hall side with repeating stencilled patterns - a fleur-de-lys, a crowned 'M', a five-leafed motif and a flower head. Above the screen is a closed truss, and east of this (over the hall) is an arch-braced jointed cruck truss, smoke-blackened, to the west, the two storey upper end has a ground-floor fireplace, possibly a later addition. The screen painting is not later than mid 16th century, the rest of the house possibly contemporary. 19th century alterations.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, Site No. 2064 and 2114 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Two cottages, St Mary's and Malthouse. St Mary's Cottage and adjoining house are part of earlier house. Adapted from house of 16th century origins with later alterations. Listed Grade II*.
SMR.

Sinclair, E. + Richardson, I., 2015, The Polychrome-Decorated Plank-and-Muntin Screen at Marker's Cottage, Broadclyst, Devon, and its Context, 131 (Article in Monograph). SDV365381.

The well-preserved early 16th-century scheme on a plank-and-muntin screen at St. Mary’s Cottage displays a simple stencilled decoration of fleurs-de-lis and crowned Ms (symbols of the Virgin Mary), with flowers and grapes. It is presumably of pre-Reformation or Marian date.

Ordnance Survey, 2024, Mastermap 2024 (Cartographic). SDV365834.

Shown as two adjoining properties.

Historic England, 2024, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV365835.

Two small cottages occupying what was originally a single house. Early or mid C16, modernised in the late C16-early C17, rearranged and made into cottages in the late C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings, parts rebuilt with C19 brick; Malthouse Cottage has an original stone rubble stack, the others are of C19 brick; slate roofs and that in Malthouse Cottage is laid over the thatch. See listing description for full details.
Date first listed: 8th November 1984

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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