Cliff View Cottages
CLIFF VIEW COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104142
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Cliff View Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFF VIEW COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104142
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cliff View Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFF VIEW COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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:
- CLIFF VIEW COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Branscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 19653 88556
Details
SY 18 NE BRANSCOMBE BRANSCOMBE
7/36 Nos. 1 and 2 Cliff View Cottages - (formerly listed as Nos. 1, 2 and 21.ll.78 3 Cliff View Cottages) GV II 2 cottages, formerly 3 cottages. Probably late C18 - early C19, thoroughly renovated in 1978. Plastered stone rubble, maybe some cob; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof, replaced with slate to rear. Plan: pair of contemporary cottages facing south-east. No. 1 is the left (south- west) cottage and it has a 2-room plan. No. 2 is the right cottage and it has a 3- room plan. There is an axial stack in the party wall between the cottages which serves back-to-back fireplaces. The left room of No. 1 has a rear corner stack. No. 2 occupies 2 former cottages. In 1978 No. 3 Cliff View Cottages was incorporated into No. 3. It was a 1-room plan cottage at the right end. Any stack it had is now disused. Both cottages are 2 storeys with probably integral outshots across the rear. Exterior: overall 5-window front of C19 and C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. The 3 original doorways still remain and all contain 1978 doors; the outer ones are plank doors and the centre one is glazed. The roof is gable-ended to right and half-hipped to left. Interior was not available for inspection at the time of this survey although it is reported that the little carpentry which is exposed is plainly-finished.
Listing NGR: SY1965088559
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88708
- 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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