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Summary

Plum Tree Cottage, 16th or 17th century in date.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1098211: Plum Tree Cottage

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Types: none recorded

Full description

Foster, K. + Skinner, R., 01/2016, A30 to A303 Honiton to Devonshire Inn Improvement Scheme, Honiton, Devon (Report - Assessment). SDV359378.

DBA undertaken along a corridor associated with the A30/A303 between Honiton and Devonshire Inn. This study is intended to inform the development of options for improvements to the A30/A303 between Honiton and Devonshire Inn.

This building along with other nearby listed buildings are diverse but all share a setting in the valley bottom hamlet of Rawridge situated along the road that runs through the village between Upottery and Monkton. The buildings have a shared integrity as historic elements of the hamlet. Their setting comprises farmland in the Otter Valley and modern housing in particular on the south-east side. To the east the setting comprises the western slopes of Rawridge Hill which comprise small fields of pasture, farms and woodland and is located within the Site.

Views towards the Site are generally screened by modern housing and hedgerows and any development within the Site would not be located in close proximity to the buildings. Any scheme located on the slopes to the east of Rawridge would be within the setting of the buildings within the hamlet and may cause harm to their significance.

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.

Formerly listed as Braggs Cottage amended to Plum Cottage 22/03/2017.

Listed Grade II Cottage. 16th or 17th century much altered and modernised in the 20th century; a circa 1980 extension. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; local stone and flint rubble with a C20 brick chimney shaft; thatch roof.

Plan: a much altered three-room and-through-passage plan house facing east. Originally there was an unheated inner room at the right (north) end. The former hall has a projecting front lateral stack and at the left (south) end there is an unheated service end room. In the C20 the house was thoroughly refurbished and at this time the passage rear doorway was blocked and the hall, passage and inner room were made into one large room by removing the partitions between them. It also seems likely that the hall stack was rebuilt at the same time. Since the roof structure was replaced in the late C19-early C20 and much of the other carpentry detail has been replaced or removed, it is not possible to determine the early structural history of the house. Nevertheless it seems likely that it began as some form of open hall house. A one-room plan extension was built circa 1980 to rear of the right (former inner room) end. House is two storeys.

Exterior: irregular three-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The passage front doorway is left of centre and it contains a C20 plank door. A secondary rear doorway to the former service room contains a reused C19 studded plank door which seems to have come from a church or chapel since it had a two-centred arch head although the top of the arch was cut off when the door was put here. The main roof is hipped both ends.

Interior: it seems that much of the carpentry detail was removed or renewed in the C19 and C20. The exposed carpentry detail is plain and includes a late C19-early C20 A-frame truss roof.

Plumtree Cottage forms part of a group with other listed buildings which make up the rather scattered hamlet of Rawridge.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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