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Summary

Judleys Thatch, formerly known as Judleys Cottage originated as a two bay, open hall house in the 15th century. It was altered the 17th century and extended in the later 17th century and again in the late 18th or early 19th century. It was significantly remodelled in early to mid 20th century.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1146668: JUDLEY'S COTTAGE

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (Built, XV - 1401 AD (Between) to 1500 AD (Between))

Full description

Wapshott, E., 2022, Judleys Thatch, Ingleigh Green, Winkleigh, Devon: Brief Heritage Assessment (Report - Assessment). SDV365354.

A brief heritage assessment was undertaken of the house in order to determine the feasibility and help inform a proposed programme of renovation works.
Judleys Thatch was previously called Judleys Cottage and is a Grade II Listed Building. It is an unusual survival from the 15th century. The core of the building appears to be a medieval hall house which is now the entrance hall and sitting room. The two bay hall house was originally open to the roof within which two jointed crucks survive. The thick cob wall at the south-east end of the hall confirms that the inner room is an extension to the hall, albeit also early in date.
A fireplace and chimney stack was inserted in the middle of the hall in the 16th or early 17th century to heat the sitting room, creating two new spaces.
The inner room has thick cob walls and the size of the beam over it suggests that it was built with a first floor which was probably accessed via a ladder. There was probably a doorway linking the two rooms, now blocked. The parlour to the rear was added in the later 17th century with a chamber above. It is heated by a massive stack which also served the inner room. A winder stair was added to the east to access both first floors. A doorway was made in the north-east corner of the hall, creating a lobby linking all three rooms. A service room was added between the parlour and the hall in the late 18th or early 19th century; a blocked doorway may link this to the hall. There was a significant phase of reworking and remodelling of the house in the early to mid 20th century.
The assessment highlighted those areas where most of the historic features of value survive and which represent the narrative of the building, areas where features or phasing relate to high value spaces, and much altered spaces with the greatest flexibility for change.

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

Marked as Judleys Thatch.

Historic England, 2024, National Heritage List for England, 1146668 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365835.

Judley's Cottage. House. Circa late C15 or early C16 with C17 alterations and circa late C17 addition, modernised in mid C20. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Thatched roof, half-hipped to left, hipped to right. 2 brick axial stacks.
Plan: Originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan, higher end to the right, which almost certainly had an open hall with central hearth. Floored over in C17 when axial hall stack was also inserted backing onto the passage. Inner room remained unheated until circa late C17 when wing was added behind with a stack axial to it heating both rooms. In the mid C20 the house was considerably modernised internally and re-fenestrated. At an indeterminate stage the lower end was demolished below the passage.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front of mid C20 leaded-light casements - 2 light to the 1st floor, 4-light to the ground floor of which the left-hand window is a canted bay. Thatch is raised in eyebrows over 1st floor windows. To the left is original, pointed 4-centred, chamfered wooden doorway with C20 arched plank and glazed door. In front of it is a rustic open-fronted thatched porch. Wide wing projects at rear of right-hand end of house.
Interior: Substantial chamfered longitudinal beams in hall and inner room. Room behind inner room has fireplace with high chamfered wooden lintel. Hall fireplace has high cambered chamfered wooden lintel resting on corbel and granite jamb to the right.
Roof: 2 original pairs of side-pegged jointed crucks survive but varnish obscures any evidence of smoke-blackening. Both have morticed cranked collars, threaded purlins and diagonal ridge. They differ however in their apex construction: the hall truss has a triangular strengthening block whereas the truss at the lower side of the passage has a curved saddle into which the top of the cruck blades are morticed and on which the ridge rests.
Date first listed: 8th October 1987

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV9089 - Heritage assessment of Judleys Thatch, Ingleigh Green

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