MSO10268 - Weeks Cottage, or Week Cottages, Week Lane, Exton (Building)
Summary
Please read the Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record caveat document.
Type and Period (1)
Protected Status
Full Description
House. Probably C17 with C19 alterations. Stone rubble. Double Roman clay tile roof with gabled ends. Stone rubble gable end stacks with later brick shafts and projecting lateral stack at front with set-offs and integral oven. PLAN: 3-room plan, the end rooms heated from gable end stacks, the centre room with a lateral stack at the front [south] with a large integral oven. The front doorway to the right of the lateral stack gives directly into the right-hand room. Projections at rear of centre and left rooms, that behind the left room contains a staircase and the larger projection behind the centre room is used as a store. Later outshut at right [east] end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window south front with small window openings with timber lintels [windows boarded over at time of inspection]; projecting lateral stack at centre with weathered set-offs and large semi-circular projecting oven to right with slate lean-to roof; plank door to right of oven with open porch with tiled lean-to canopy. Real [north] wall projects on right. At east end a large single-storey outshut with a tiled lean-to roof. INTERIOR not inspected. [1] English Heritage Listed Building Number: 492427. First Listed on 7 April 2004. [2] The building was visited in June 2012 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. It received a BAR score of 6. [3] The building is shown on the Tithe Map for Winsford. [4]
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SSO672 Index: 2/1/1986. Thirty-fifth List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, District of West Somerset (Somerset)/Exmoor National Park.
- <2> SSO2013 Unassigned: Webster CJ, Historic Environment Record. 2005. Staff Comments, Somerset County Council.
- <3> SEM8060 Report: Lawrence, G.. 2014. Exmoor National Park: Rapid condition survey of listed buildings 2012-13.
- <4> SSO712 Map: 1840. Withycombe Tithe Map and Apportionment.
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Other Statuses/References
- 2012-3 Building At Risk Score (6): 1076/0/10017
- Local List Status (No)
- National Park: Exmoor National Park
- Somerset SMR PRN: 17515
Location
Grid reference | Centred SS 9147 3332 (21m by 10m) (MasterMap) |
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Map sheet | SS93SW |
Civil Parish | EXTON, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET |
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Record last edited
Nov 18 2020 2:21PM
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