Shelly Cottage

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SOUTH TAWTON SOUTH ZEAL Shelly Cottage

(Formerly listed as Shelley Cottage)

GV II

House. Mid C17, rearranged in C19, extensively modernised in 1986. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stack with granite ashlar chimneyshaft; thatch roof.

Plan: three-room plan house facing south. The larger central room was heated by an axial stack backing onto the left room. Originally there was a lobby entrance onto the side of the stack but in the late C19 this was blocked and a through passage inserted through the right end of the central room and another doorway inserted into the left room. In 1986 the central room was restored to its original size. Two storeys.

Exterior: irregular three-window front of late C19 - early C20 horned four-pane sashes and both front doors are contemporary. Roof runs continuously with that of contemporary Shelly House (q.v) to left and is gable-ended to right.

Interior: the centre room has an unstopped ovolo-moulded crossbeam with lightly-moulded joists. The fireplace here is granite with an oak ovolo-moulded and runout-stopped lintel. Roof of large A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars with shaped halvings.

South Zeal is special being one of the few medieval boroughs in Devon where a significant number of its C16 and C17 building still survives.

Listing NGR: SX6535493526