Westbourne Cottage

WESTBOURNE COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1058027
Date first listed:
22-May-1969
List Entry Name:
Westbourne Cottage
Statutory Address:
WESTBOURNE COTTAGE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1058027
Date first listed:
22-May-1969
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Westbourne Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
WESTBOURNE COTTAGE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WESTBOURNE COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Selworthy
National Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
SS 91882 46786

Details

SS9146 SELWORTHY CP SELWORTHY GREEN

26/119 Westbourne Cottage (formerly listed as 2 separate items: Bow Cottage and Cottage adjoining) 22.5.69

GV II Cottage. Probably C17, altered mid C19. Roughcast over rubble, thatched roof, external stack left gable end, large lateral stack centre left with slate roofed bread oven projection. Plan: 3-cell and cross passage. One and a half storeys, 1:2 bays; arch headed 2-light leaded dormers, bay to right of stack built out on a plane with stack, ground floor C20 leaded window left of single storey pentice hood double Roman tiled porch, semicircular headed door, diagonally boarded double doors, 3-light ogee headed leaded casements to right of stack, 2-light casement right; left return double Roman tiled lean-to roofed addition continued as outshut at rear, 2 bays left of external stack, slate roofed semicircular leaded bay to right. Interior not seen. (Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: SS9188546784

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
265523
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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