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Summary

Site of a cottage that once formed part of a small settlement on the east side of the track. The cottage is depicted on the 1840 Tithe Map and appears to have been occupied until 1887/8 when it was demolished.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• COTTAGE NON SPECIFIC (Built, XVIII to XIX - 1751 AD (Between) to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

Building depicted in the south-east corner of Plot 721.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Building not shown.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Building not shown.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, 16, Part 1; 117-118, Part 2: Gazetteer, Site No. 654 (Report - Survey). SDV101648.

The Stockland Tithe Map depicts a row of four dwellings along the north-western edge of Horner Hill survey area (see sites 356, 357, 655). The property in this plot was described as a house and garden (plot 721) and was owned and occupied by Matthew Collins. No remains were found within the area during the field survey, at which time the ground was fairly overgrown.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 654 (Archive - Survey). SDV358490.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 654 (Report - Survey). SDV359019.

Dawes, C., 2009, Metal detecting on Horner Hill (Un-published). SDV365796.

Documentary history of a row of four cottages on Harner Hill, some of the ruins of which can still be seen. The land was originally common land but was enclosed following the Stockland Enclosure Act of 1807 and in 1824 became part of the Harner Hill Turbury awarded to the Church in the persons of the Churwardens and Overseers of the Poor (CWO). Enclosures and possible cottages are shown on the site on the 1806/7 Ordnance Survey drawings but the scale is too small to determine what was actually on the ground. The earliest definitive evidence for the cottages is the Tithe Map of 1840.
Plot 721 is recorded as a cottage and garden on the accompanying Stockland Tithe Apportionment, completed in 1844. At this time it was owned and occupied by John Collins. The Collins lived in the property until 1887/8 when it is recorded in the Land Tax Assessment as passing to Thomas Hoare. It appears to have been demolished at this time.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV3255 - East Devon heathlands archaeological survey

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