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Summary

Woodhayes Cottage, Luppit. 17th century in date.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1098229: WOODHAYES COTTAGE
• Listed Building (II) 1098229: WOODHAYES 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.

Woodhayes Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with a core that is of the typical Blackdown Hills vernacular with a four room plan, plastered cob and chert rubble walls and a thatched roof. The cottage was added to and altered during the 18th and 19th centuries. The cottage is set within an enclosed garden and has several other cottages adjacent to it as well as agricultural buildings associated with Shaugh Farm. It is situated on a lane on the west side of the Otter Valley. The cottage has a prominent position overlooking fields of pasture in the Otter Valley including part of the Site.

The cottage derives its significance from its evidential (architectural value), its aesthetic value as a typical Blackdown Hills cottage and from its historical value as a surviving feature of the post-medieval landscape. The cottage’s immediate setting of farm buildings is largely unrelated being a later imposition. The cottage’s gardens are its most important setting representing a secluded and intimate space from which the cottage can be experienced.

The wider setting of fields to the south-east is also important as it represents the cottage’s original, rural historic setting. The busy A30 is visible on the far side of the valley but is largely screened from it by buildings and hedgerows.

Any scheme that affects the fields to the south-east of Woodhayes Cottage within its Otter Valley setting would be considered to be within the cottage’s setting and would be likely to impact upon its significance. Such an impact may be reduced through the implementation of careful, sensitive design.

Sources / Further Reading

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