See important guidance on the use of this record.

If you have any comments or new information about this record, please email us.

Summary

House, possibly built as a pair of houses in the early or mid 17th century, with some mid 19th and 20th century modernisation. Three storeys with double-gabled roof and two canted bays to first floor.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1208147: THE COBBLES

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX85SE/96
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 387164

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XVII to XIX - 1601 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1972, Dartmouth, 8 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV155627.

C17, twin gabled, 3 storey 1-window houses with mid C19 alterations including glazing bars removed, fancy bargeboard. Stucco, lined and painted. Massive stone walls corbelled forward at 2nd floor.

Ordnance Survey, 2008, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV340009.

English Heritage, 2013, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV350785.

House, possibly built as a pair of houses in the early or mid 17th century with some mid 19th and 20th century modernisation. Mixed construction; side and back wall of plastered stone rubble and front wall is plastered timber-framing; left end and rear lateral stone rubble stacks with 19th and 20th century brick chimneyshafts and some old pots; slate roof. Plan: 17th century right-angle plan with 2 parallel ranges; 2 houses by 19th century. Exterior: 2-window front is mid 19th century superficially but is structurally 17th century with side walls corbelled out to carry second-floor jetty. Each former ground-floor room has a doorway to right, both now containing 20th century part-glazed doors. All windows, including front ones of first-floor canted bays, are horned 4-pane sashes. Plastered front is lightly blocked out as ashlar and each end are stucco quoins, alternate blocks with vermiculated rustication. Double-gabled roof with shaped bargeboards and a terracotta finial on each apex. Rear includes at least one original 17th century oak window frame with ovolo-moulded mullion. Interior: Although largely the result of 19th and 20th century modernisations, enough 17th century fabric revealed to suggest that the original structure is well-preserved. Main beams have plain chamfers, the axial beam over the ground-floor room shows no evidence for an original partition, but axial partitions on upper floors are probably 17th century. Fireplaces of the left stack; ground-floor one built in 20th century and first-floor one has a 20th century Windsor chimneypiece. Right rear first-floor fireplace is original; stone rubble with chamfered and step-stopped oak lintel, it is now partly blocked to accommodate a 19th century cast-iron grate. Newel stair rises from first to second floor round a timber post in a stone alcove. On the top floor only the undersides of relatively slender truss principals are exposed; it is not possible to determine whether these are 17th or 19th century.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Search results generated by the HBSMR Gateway from exeGesIS SDM Ltd.