Listing
Search the List

What is Listing?

Listing Guidance

Apply for Listing

Missing Pieces Project

Blue Plaque Scheme
Listing

Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE).

Find out about listing

Terracotta tiles on the roof of Saintoft Lodge, Newton-on-Rawcliffe, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Grade II listed © Historic England Archive DP371715
Advice
Climate Change

Heritage at Risk

Your Home

Technical Guidance

Planning

Caring for Heritage

Constructive Conservation
Advice

See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places.

Get our advice

A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. Explore our technical advice section © Historic England Archive DP313199
Research
Our Research Strategy and Agenda

Research Governance

Latest Research

Research Methods

Current Research

Research Results

Support & Collaboration

Inclusive Heritage

Heritage Counts
Research

Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment.

Discover our research

Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team View image DP264265 © Historic England
Images & Books
Find Photos

Search All Publications

Buy Books

The Historic England Archive
Images & Books

Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment.

Browse our collections

Children play with a doll and a pram on the cobbled Church Path in Queen Camel, Somerset, in April 1953. At the far end of the path is the tower of the Church of St Barnabas, which dates to the 14th century. Photographer: John Gay Image reference: AA091596 © Historic England Archive
Services & Skills
Education

Grants

Our Planning Services

Training & Skills

Archive Services

Heritage Action Zones

Levelling Up Places Service
Services & Skills

Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development.

Learn about our services

Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships © Historic England Archive DP347660
What's New
News

In Your Area

Historic England Blog

Latest Research

Heritage Online Debate

Statements

Stay up to Date
What's New

Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area.

Catch up with what's new

Two horsemen reading The Sportsman, 30 Oct 1902, Farnborough, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. Source Historic England Archive. BB98/02592
About Us
What We Do

Who We Are

How We Are Funded

Contact Us

Careers

Volunteer with Historic England
About Us

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England's spectacular historic environment.

Find out more

Mountbatten House (formerly Gateway House), Basing View, Basingstoke, the former headquarters for the paper merchants Wiggins Teape by Arup Associates. Listed at Grade II. © Historic England
Sign in
Manage my account

Sign out

SWALLOWS, MERLINS COTTAGE, BAKERS AND MUFFETS AND WRENS COTTAGE

SWALLOWS, MERLINS COTTAGE, BAKERS AND MUFFETS AND WRENS COTTAGE, EAST STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106704
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: SWALLOWS, MERLINS COTTAGE, BAKERS AND MUFFETS AND WRENS COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: SWALLOWS, MERLINS COTTAGE, BAKERS AND MUFFETS AND WRENS COTTAGE, EAST STREET

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2003-03-17
Reference:: IOE01/10316/27
Rights:: © Dr Ann Allen. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106704
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: SWALLOWS, MERLINS COTTAGE, BAKERS AND MUFFETS AND WRENS COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: SWALLOWS, MERLINS COTTAGE, BAKERS AND MUFFETS AND WRENS COTTAGE, EAST STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SWALLOWS, MERLINS COTTAGE, BAKERS AND MUFFETS AND WRENS COTTAGE, EAST STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Chulmleigh
National Grid Reference:: SS 68839 14278

Details

SS 6814-6914 CHULMLEIGH 7/52 EAST STREET (north side) Swallows, Merlins Cottage Bakers, Muffets and Wrens Cottage 25.10.'88 GV II Range of 5 dwellings, originally tenement farmhouse. Early C17 but earlier fabric may well be concealed. Extended are rear probably in C18, front range sub-divided into 3 tenements probably in C19 and C20 alterations. Painted roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob. Thatch roof, half hipped at right end with large rendered stone rubble stack, stone rubble rear lateral hall stack with tapered cap enclosed by outshut, axial brick stack and rendered stack at hipped left end. Rear range (Muffets) also thatched , hipped at rear end with 2 lateral stacks on left-hand outer wall. Plans and development: despite subdivision into 3 tenements, the front range, comprising Swallows at left, end, Merlins Cottage to centre and Bakers at right end, is a surprisingly little altered 3-room-and-through-passage house, the divisions between the cottages occurring at each end of the hall which is heated by the rear lateral stack, with inner room (Bakers) to right and lower end and screens passage (Swallows) to left. Direct entrances have been made into Merlins and Bakers Cottages. The front through passage doorway has been blocked and a new doorway inserted to left to Swallows. The screen to the lower side of the passage has been removed and 2 rooms formed from the lower end and former passage, a brick stack having been inserted against a surviving screen. Merlins and Bakers are both single plan cottages with staircases and small service room s to all cottages in the continuous rear outshots. The original staircase appears to have been beside the hall stack, but there may also have been one beside the inner room stack. Access to the main roofspace was not possible at time of survey, and although heavy straight principals are visible over the hall section suggesting the early C17 date, it is highly likely that an earlier roof structure survives. Possibly in the C18, the wing, probably originally a kitchen wing, but now forming Wrens and Muffets Cottages was added to rear left end creating an overall L-shaped plan. Exterior 2 storeys. 4 window range. All 3 light casements, 2 panes per light except for 4 paned sash at right end. Swallows has 3 light casement, 2 panes per light to left of C20 door and 2 light casement, 2 panes per light inserted in blocked former through-passage doorway to right. Merlins Cottage has C19 plank door to left of 3 light casement, 3 panes per light. Bakers has plank door with 4 glazed upper panes to left of C20 3 light window. Small 2 light window at left end. Interior: hall and inner room (Merlins and Bakers) have cross ceiling beams with sunk ovolo moulding and decorative run out stops. Scratch-moulded joists to both rooms. Similarly moulded lintel to inner room fireplace. Hall/passage screen exposed on hall side only, 6 planks wide and incorporating gentle ogee-headed doorway. Cased in C17 door surround to rear of inner room. Boxed in beam to lower side of passage has grooved soffit indicating former position of second screen. Lower end has chamfered cross ceiling beam. Both the beam and the existing screen stop short of the front wall, suggesting the latter may have been built out at the lower end. The interiors of all 3 cottages are relatively unspoilt. No access to roofspace at time of survey but heavy straight principals visible over all suggest early roof structure is intact and possibly might indicated a medieval core.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 97230
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.