Slowhand Cottage Broadwoodwidger, England
Listed Building Data
Slowhand Cottage has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1104634
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 21 January 1986
- Name
- SLOWHAND COTTAGE
- Location
- SLOWHAND COTTAGE
- Parish
- Broadwoodwidger
- District
- Torridge
- County
- Devon
- Grid Reference
- SX 39070 90341
- Easting
- 239070.0000
- Northing
- 90341.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BROADWOODWIDGER THORNE MOOR SX 38 NE 7/63 Slowhand Cottage - II GV Cottage. Circa late C17/early C18 shell with C19 alterations and a C20 lean-to addition. Colourwashed rendered cob with a wheat reed thatched roof hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end, stone stack at right gable end. The original plan seems to have been a 2-room cottage with 1 heated room and a rear door opposed to the front door. The ground and first floor ceilings appear to have been reconstructed in the C19 and a straight circa early C20 stair now blocks the rear doorway. C20 lean-to addition adjoins at the left end. 2 storeys. Approximately symmetrical 2-window front with 3 buttresses and a gabled central porch with slate roof and a squint in the left return. Fenestration of C20 2- and 3-light casements with 6 and 8 panes per light, all with slate sills. The C20 addition is stone rubble and also has casement windows with glazing bars. Interior The partitions between the left and right-hand rooms no longer exists, a straight stair has been inserted in the centre. The fireplace has stone rubble jambs, a chamfered stopped lintel and a semi-circular bread oven which projects beyond the exterior wall. Exposed joists, unplastered between. The first floor has a C19 boarded ceiling. Roofspace not inspected but pegged trusses said to survive.
Listing NGR: SX3879789009
