Gorse Cottage
GORSE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097997
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Gorse Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GORSE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097997
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Gorse Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORSE 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:
- GORSE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gittisham
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 13318 98351
Details
GITTISHAM GITTISHAM (south side) SY 19 NW
7/176 Gorse Cottage 7.12.62
GV II
Small house. Circa late C16/early C17, C20 renovations. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone; thatched roof, half-hipped at left end, hipped at right end; axial stack to right of centre. Plan: Single depth range, 2 rooms wide with a lean-to at the left end and a C19 brick rear outshut. The house may have originated as a 2 room plan building with a heated room to the right, an unheated service room to the left. The partition between the rooms was removed in the 1970s. The unheated room to the right is probably a post C17 addition. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with a circa C19 plank front door to right of centre with a porch hood. C20 casement windows with diamond leaded panes. Interior: The heated room has a large step-stopped crossbeamm and a scroll-stopped half-beam in front of the stack. C20 steel girder on site of former partition between the unheated and heated rooms. Roof: 2 complete side-pegged jointed cruck truss over the left end. A second truss may also have been a jointed cruck with the feet removed and the principals dressed off. The apex of each truss is not smoke-blackened.
Listing NGR: SY1331698350
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87178
- 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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