Description

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SX8399 FORDTON 672-1/4/182 Fordton Cottage 19/03/51

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Small gentry house. Circa 1730s origins, remodelled in a Gothick manner in the circa 1820s. Brick, stuccoed on the front, roughcast on the rear; thatched roof, gabled at ends; brick stacks with banded brick shafts. Plan: Double depth plan, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance into a passage containing the stair. 2-storey rear service lean-to to the rear.Rear addition to the lean-to includes a back kitchen.Former stable adjoining at right end has been absorbed into the house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a gable to the front in the centre. Central C19 half-glazed front door with a hoodmould and label stops. All windows also have hoodmoulds and label stops. High-transomed French windows to left and right with glazing bars and margin panes. Similar smaller casements to left and right on first floor, smaller centre window with a 2-light casement with glazing bars. The gable has a blind lozenge-shaped window with a central quatrefoil and a V-shaped hoodmould with label stops. Former stable block to right has a slate hipped roof and dormer window. The left return has a blind lozenge in the gable and a 2-light high-transomed casement below with glazing bars and margin panes. The thatch is carried down as a catslide to the rear service lean-to. Interior: Early C18 features include several 2-panel doors on the first floor, most with HL hinges and a timber first floor chimney-piece. Early C19 joinery includes panelled doors on the ground floor and a plaster cornice; stick baluster stair with mahogany newels and a ramped mahogany handrail. Photographs in the possession of the owner show that the present window embrasures on the front have been reduced in width; the earlier ones probably contained sashes. The Gothick programme may have been carried out for Mr Thomas Pring, the Clerk of the Peace for Devon, who purchased the house in 1829. Pring was succeeded by Mr Francis Drake, a London lawyer who had been born in the parish. (Pope, W.: Glimpses of the Past in and around Crediton: 1927-: 21).

Listing NGR: SX8397499101

External Links

• Wikidata Q26491602

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)