Thatchers Cottage
THATCHERS COTTAGE, WOOD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098046
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Thatchers Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THATCHERS COTTAGE, WOOD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098046
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Thatchers Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THATCHERS COTTAGE, WOOD 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.
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:
- THATCHERS COTTAGE, WOOD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadhembury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 10029 04980
Details
In the entry for:-
SY 10 SW BROADHEMBURY WOOD LANE, Broadhembury
5/88 Thatchers
GV II
The entry shall be amended to read:-
SY 10 SW BROADHEMBURY -
5/88 Thatchers Cottage
GV II ------------------------------------
BROADHEMBURY WOOD LANE, Broadhembury SY 10 SW
5/88 Thatchers
GV II
Small cottage. Probably C18, C20 renovations. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings; thatched roof with a plain ridge, gabled at ends; left end stack with a modern brick shaft. Plan: A single depth range, probably originally divided between a heated kitchen/living room at the left end and an unheated service room at the right end, considerably repartitioned at the right end in the C20. A single storey addition at the right end in the C20. A single storey addition at the left end has a pantile roof, entrance on the right return. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front with the eaves thatch eyebrowed over 2 first floor windows; 3 ground floor windows, all C20 small-pane timber casements. C20 porch with a first floor projection over, at the right end with a C20 front door. Interior: Modernized. Included for group value with a collection of small houses and cottages at Hembercombe on the lane up to Broadhembury Common. Easily visible from Broadhembury village, an outstanding unspoiled estate village.
Listing NGR: ST1002904980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87091
- 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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