Description

SX 8178 BOVEY TRACEY EAST STREET, (South side)
Bovey Tracey
11/64 Rose Cottage including archway
- adjoining Front House Guest House
GV II

Self-catering apartments, part of Front House Guest House (q.v.); formerly a
cottage, C16 or C17, considerably enlarged and rebuilt in C19. Rubble stone,
mostly covered with roughcast on street side and on part of rear. Tarred, slated
roofs. Older range, to left, presents its gable to the street, this having a
projecting granite ashlar chimneystack with chamfered plinth, offsets and tapered
cap. 2 C19 brick chimneystacks at rear. L-shaped plan, the right-hand section
along the street frontage and the rear section of the gable-ended range being
almost certainly later additions. 2 storeys. The street frontage contains no
openings, except for a small 4-pane wood window of late C19 or early C20 in second
storey of right-hand section. In courtyard at rear, the west wall of the gable-end
range has been re-windowed, and probably refaced, in C19. Windows have jambs and
segmental arches of red brick and 3-pane wood casements.
Interior: ground-storey fireplace in north gable has granite jambs and a heavy
granite lintel, cracked in the centre.
Archway, on street frontage between Rose Cottage and the guest house, is elliptical
and composed of red-brick headers with rubble stone above and a concrete coping.
Rough-cast on street side. C19.

Listing NGR: SX8178078567

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618776

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)