The Dairy Dell Cottage

SX 37 NE MILTON ABBOT ENDSLEIGH

9/224 The Dairy Dell Cottage - GV II*

Cottage. Circa 1814 for the 6th Duke of Bedford and probably designed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville. Stone rubble with a slate roof hipped at ends 2 stone stack. A long low single depth range consisting of a single storey block at the left end linked to a single-storey and attic heated block at the right end by a rustic loggia in the middle. Long 3:3 window front elevation overlooking a pond. 3 casement windows in the left-hand block are 2-light with glazing bars under timber lintels. The right- hand block has an off-centre rustic gabled porch with Gothick moulding in the gable. To the left of the porch are two 3-light casements under flat stone arches with high transoms and glazing bars, square leaded panes above the transoms. To the right of- the porch is a 3-light casement with glazing bars under a flat stone arch. 2 full dormers at the right end have hipped slate roofs and casement windows with glazing bars. The logggia is supported at the front by 3 rustic posts with rustic struts and has a partly cobbled floor. The right return of the left-hand block consists of rustic planks on partition walls beneath the loggia. Repairs for the Landmark Trust underway at time of survey 1985. In Humphry Repton's first scheme for Endsleigh (1809) which predates the Red Book (1814) a collection of linked cottages was proposed for "Dell site", but this was probably a design for Endsleigh Cottage (now Endsleigh House), and the illustration bears no resemblance to the Dairy Dell Cottage. A letter from Wyatville to Bedford's accountant dated 1814 states "I certainly will take the Park buildings into consideration. Indeed I believe I have have already formed the plan in my mind ..." and it seems likely that he was responsible for the design of the cottage. Bedford Estate Papers, D.R.O., Devon Letters, L 1258/82.

Listing NGR: SX3892978634