Description

DUNKESWELL ABBEY ST 11 SW 1/21 Abbey Cottage (formerly listed as Gatehouse Cottage) 22.2.55 GV II Cottage, former small farmhouse and originally part of the gatehouse of Dunkeswell Abbey (q.v.). The gatehouse is early C16, this was probably enlarged to a small farmhouse in the later C16 or C17, modernised circa 1980. Local stone rubble incorporating small fragments of Beerstone ashlar from the gatehouse; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof, slate and tile roofs to rear outshots. Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing north. The right (western) room has a rear lateral stack and the left room has a projecting front lateral stack. There may once have been a passage between the 2 rooms. The right room was originally built as part of Dunkeswell Abbey gatehouse. It was the room of the southern side of the carriageway. The northern room remains as a ruin. It is listed as the ruins of Dunkeswell Abbey gatehouse (q.v). Since no internal inspection was available at the time of this survey it is not clear how much of the original gatehouse was rebuilt when the farmhouse was built. It is 2 storeys with a single storey kitchen extension of circa 1980 to rear of the right end. Exterior: the north front has no windows. There is a roughly central doorway here and it contains a C20 part-glazed plank door under a thatch hood which is carried down from the eaves. The windows round the other sides are C20 casements with glazing bars. The roof is half-hipped each end. Interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey although it is said to include C16 and C17 carpentry and other detail. The previous list description reports "2 open hearths and a doorway with pointed stone head and stop chamfered jambs". Dunkeswell Abbey was founded in 1201 by William, Lord Brewere as a cistercian monastery. Scheduled Ancient Monument 228 (part). Source: P. J.Weddell, Dunkeswell, Devon Religious Houses Survey No. 11 (1986).

Listing NGR: ST1419510692

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