Coganhayes

COGANHAYES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098050
Date first listed:
27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:
Coganhayes
Statutory Address:
COGANHAYES

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098050
Date first listed:
27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:
Coganhayes
Statutory Address 1:
COGANHAYES

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
COGANHAYES

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Buckerell
National Grid Reference:
ST 12187 00572

Details

BUCKERELL BUCKERELL SY 10 SW

5/101 Coganhayes

GV II

House. Probably late C17 or earlier, said by owner to be documented in 1521, C20 alterations. Colourwashed and rendered, probably cob on stone footings; thatched roof with a plain ridge, hipped at ends; axial stack, left end stack. Plan: End on to the road. Single depth plan, 3 rooms wide, possibly originally with a cross passage to left of centre. The front door, which opens directly into the centre room, was formerly further to the left (photograph). There are back to back fireplaces in the axial stack to right of centre, heating the 2 right hand rooms. The left end (putative lower end) stack may be C19 or C20. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with a C20 lean-to porch on posts with a red tiled roof and a C19 or C20 plank front door, leading into the centre room. Small 2- and 3-light timber casement windows of the C20, some with glazing bars. Interior: Chamfered crossbeam to the right hand room, the centre has an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel. Roof: Not inspected. There may be some documentary confusion between this building and Hembury Fort House, formerly known as Cockenhayes, q.v.

Listing NGR: ST1218700572

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
87105
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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