Dorf Cottage

DORF COTTAGE, DRY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097810
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Dorf Cottage
Statutory Address:
DORF COTTAGE, DRY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097810
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Dorf Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
DORF COTTAGE, DRY LANE

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

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:
DORF COTTAGE, DRY LANE

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

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Christow
National Park:
Dartmoor
National Grid Reference:
SX8314685480

Details

CHRISTOW DRY LANE, Christow
SX 88 NW
2/110 Dorf Cottage
GV II
Cottage. Late C17, C20 alterations. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone; thatched
roof, gabled at ends ; right end stack.
Plan: Single depth 2 room plan cottage with a heated room to the right and entrance
into the unheated left end room. C20 addition at right end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window front with a C20 lean-to to left of
centre, C20 timber casements.
Interior: The right hand room has an open fireplace with a granite lintel, chamfered
jambs and a brick-lined bread oven. Chamfered crossbeam with step-stops ; exposed
joists, some moulded. The left end room has a rough crossbeam.
Roof: apex not inspected, but principal rafters appear to be straight.
Group value with a number of early houses in Dry Lane.


Listing NGR: SX8314685480

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
85629
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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