Gibbs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Gibbs Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-eave-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gibbs Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with extensions added in the later 20th century. It has rendered rubble walls that include some cob and a thatched roof that is gabled at the right end and hipped at the left. There is a rendered axial stack, likely brick on a rubble base, and a rubble lateral stack at the rear of the left-hand end.
Originally, the cottage had a two-room plan, with a larger room on the right that features a fireplace in the end wall and a doorway on the front wall. The left-hand room also has a fireplace and a doorway on the rear wall. In the later 20th century, a one-room addition was constructed at the right-hand end, along with a conservatory on the rear wall.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front. The right-hand end features a two-storey extension with small-paned two and three-light casements. The rest of the first floor has 19th-century two-light casements, while the ground floor has a three-light casement left of centre, along with two 20th-century casements to the left and centre. To the left of centre, there is probably an 18th-century plank door beneath a single slate hood.
Inside, the cottage retains two open fireplaces with roughly chamfered wooden lintels; one in the right-hand room has the date 1719 scratched on it. The roof timbers are simple pegged A-frames, which may be original or from the late 18th century.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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