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BRAMLEY AND THIMBLE COTTAGE

BRAMLEY, 8, OTTERY ROAD, EX9 7HW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205066
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: BRAMLEY AND THIMBLE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: BRAMLEY, 8, OTTERY ROAD, EX9 7HW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205066
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: BRAMLEY AND THIMBLE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: BRAMLEY, 8, OTTERY ROAD, EX9 7HW
Statutory Address 2:: THIMBLE COTTAGE, 6, OTTERY ROAD

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRAMLEY, 8, OTTERY ROAD, EX9 7HW
Statutory Address:: THIMBLE COTTAGE, 6, OTTERY ROAD

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Otterton
National Grid Reference:: SY 08434 85370

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/01/2017

SY 0885, 7/193

OTTERTON, OTTERY ROAD, No. 8, Bramley, and No. 6, Thimble Cottage

(Formerly listed as: No. 8 Crosstree Cottages and Bramley)

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Two cottages, formerly one house. C16 origins, refurbished in early-mid C17, rearranged when divided into cottages in the C18, modernised circa 1980. Plastered walls, stone rubble to first floor level, cob above; cob and stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. Two adjoining cottages facing north-west. The cottages apparently derived from a C16 3-room-and-through-passage plan house. It has been substantially altered since. In the C18 it was divided into three 1-room plan cottages. The right (south-western) cottage occupies the former inner room. This is now Thimble (formerly Crosstree) Cottage. It has a rear lateral stack and a rear kitchen outshot of circa 1980. The other two cottages were united circa 1980 to create Bramley. The service end room at the left end is unheated and now includes the site of the former passage. The passage doorways are blocked. It now has a lobby entrance onto the side of the former hall axial stack which originally backed onto the passage. This stack is built of cob. Rear wall of the hall has been knocked through to a circa 1980 outshot. Both cottages are 2 storeys. Irregular front fenestration with 6 ground-floor and 3 first-floor windows overall, all C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. The front doorway to Bramley is left of centre and contains a C20 door with a thatched semi-conical hood. The windows each side block the doorways to the former cottages and their stone jambs are exposed. The left one in fact is the original front passage doorway. The doorway to Thimble Cottage is to the rear service outshot and has a C20 glass-roofed porch. The main roof is half-hipped each end. INTERIOR includes the work of all the building phases and, although the original plan is still essentially intact, little early work can be seen at present. In Thimble Cottage the crossbeam was replaced in 1985 and the fireplace has been rebuilt. No trusses show here and the roof space is inaccessible. In Bramley no carpentry detail is exposed in the former service end room. In the former hall the fireplace has been rebuilt with stone rubble and the lintel is a reused C17 soffit- chamfered and scroll-stopped oak timber. The axial beam across the hall is early- mid C17; it is soffit-chamfered with double bar-scroll stops. The oldest roof truss appears to date from the same time. It is found close to the party wall and is a side-pegged jointed cruck truss, its face drilled with a series of holes indicating that it was once a closed truss. The other trusses are C18 A-frames with pegged lap-jointed collars and X-apexes. Some purlins are sooted and presumably reused from the early C16 roof.

Listing NGR: SY0843485370

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

Legacy System number:: 86394
Legacy System:: LBS

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