Rock Cottage
ROCK COTTAGE, FORCHES HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097637
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK COTTAGE, FORCHES HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097637
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK COTTAGE, FORCHES HILL
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:
- ROCK COTTAGE, FORCHES HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stokeinteignhead
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91542 70607
Details
STOKEINTEIGNHEAD FORCHES HILL, Stokeinteignhead SX 9070-9170
17/370 Rock Cottage -
GV II
Cottage. Probably C17 or earlier, C20 addition on left end. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble; thatched roof, half-hipped at right end, gabled at left end; projecting front lateral stack with set-offs. Plan: Probably a 2 room plan with a central entrance. The right hand room is heated from a front lateral stack. The left hand room has a stack at the left end, but it may have been unheated originally. In the C20 a single-storey extension was added to the left end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1 window front with a C20 front door to the left of the stack, 1 small ground floor window and 1 first floor C20 3-light timber casement with glazing bars. The right return has 1 first floor 3-light timber casement with glazing bars. The rear elevation, backing onto Forches Hill, has 1 first and 1 ground floor 2-light timber casement with glazing bars and 1 small ground floor C20 window. Plaster armorial bearing with supporters of unknown date on the rear wall. These are identical to the armorial bearings in Old Bailey Farmhouse (q.v.). Interior: Access to interior unobtainable at time of survey (1987) but said to have exposed carpentry.
Listing NGR: SX9154270607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86016
- 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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