Brooklyn Cottage
BROOKLYN COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097485
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brooklyn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKLYN COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097485
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brooklyn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOKLYN COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKLYN COTTAGE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 08217 85293
Details
OTTERTON FORE STREET (north side), SY 0885 Otterton 7/160 Brooklyn Cottage GV II Cottage. Second half of C17, modernised in C19 and again circa 1970. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stacks with c19 and C20 brick tops; thatch roof. U-plan house. Main block faces south-south-east, say south, onto Fore Street with short rear blocks projecting at right angles behind each end. The right (eastern) rear block is probably secondary. Main block has a 2-room plan with central through passage (now containing C20 stairs). Right room has a gable end stack and left room has an axial stack backing onto the passage. 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front of C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. The front passage doorway is set left of centre and contains a C20 panelled door and above it is the pediment of a C19 doorcase. Roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. Both rear blocks are gable-ended and rear includes casements similar to those on the front. Interior is largely the result of C19 and C20 modernisations but there are some features from the original house exposed. The left front room crossbeam and the left rear room axial beam both have neat soffit chamfers but are unstopped. The only truss which shows is that over the right room and it is plastered over. Nevertheless its shape indicates a jointed cruck truss. The fireplaces are blocked. Brooklyn Cottage is one of a number of attractive listed buildings along Otterton Fore Street.
Listing NGR: SY0821785293
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86361
- 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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