Firdale Cottage and Briar Cottage
FIRDALE COTTAGE AND BRIAR COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097638
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Firdale Cottage and Briar Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FIRDALE COTTAGE AND BRIAR COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097638
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Firdale Cottage and Briar Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRDALE COTTAGE AND BRIAR 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.
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:
- FIRDALE COTTAGE AND BRIAR COTTAGE
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 91672 70144
Details
STOKEINTEIGNHEAD GABWELL CROSS SX 9070-9170
17/372 Firdale Cottage and Briar - Cottage
GV II
2 adjoining houses, formerely one build. Circa mid C17, probably extended later at the left end. Colourwashed rendered cob and stone rubble; roof of Firdale thatched and hipped at right end, roof of Briar Cottage replaced with tile; axial stack and left end stack. Plan: Unusual single depth plan, originally 3 rooms wide, lower end to the left with a passage entrance, hall stack backing onto passage and a narrow unheated service room to the right of the hall and possibly a lower end kitchen to the left, which has been extended. Exterior: 2 storeys, Asymmetrical 3:4 window front, front door to Firdale to left of centre, Briar Cottage entered on rear. C19 and C20 timber casement windows with glazing bars, those to Firdale with enlarged embrasures. Interior: Rich in carpentry. The hall in Firdale, has a chamfered lintel to the fireplace with bar stops and a chamfered crossbeam with chamfered joists with bold rounded stops. A chamfered crossbeam and exposed joists also survive to the right hand room. Roof: A side pegged jointed cruck roof structure with collars lap-dovetailed into the principal rafters survives throughout Firdale and over the right end of Briar Cottage, the purlins threaded just below the collar joint. Group value with Tappers Cottage (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SX9167270144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86018
- 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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