NUMBERS 2, 3 AND 4 THORNE'S COTTAGES
2, 3 AND 4 THORNE'S COTTAGES, GREENWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104153
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 2, 3 AND 4 THORNE'S COTTAGES
- Statutory Address:
- 2, 3 AND 4 THORNE'S COTTAGES, GREENWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104153
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 2, 3 AND 4 THORNE'S COTTAGES
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, 3 AND 4 THORNE'S COTTAGES, GREENWAY
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:
- 2, 3 AND 4 THORNE'S COTTAGES, GREENWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 01072 87115
Details
SY 08 NW
2/118
WOODBURY
GREENWAY, Woodbury
Nos. 2, 3 & 4 Thorne's Cottages
GV
II
Row of 3 cottages. Late C17 or early C18 with C19 and C20 alterations. Roughcast
cob on stone footings. Some brick patching; gabled-end asbestos and slate roofs.
Originally a row of 2-room, single depth plan cottages heated by axial stacks with
plastered brick shafts; no.1 is larger than the others and incorporates a former
barn at the right-hand end of the row. 2 storeys.
Front: with the exception of the converted barn (with glazed porch), mostly C19
casement windows, the 6 to the 1st floor early C19, 8 panes per light; 6 similar
windows to ground floor, some replaced. No.4 retains parts of 2 late C17 or early
C18 chamfered window surrounds. 2 front doors (to nos. 3 and 4) with simple
canopies supported by struts.
Rear: with small 1st floor windows, C19 and C20 casements set in the original
embrasures.
Interior: No.4 only inspected internally: one deeply chamfered cross ceiling beam
with one roughly cut run-out stop.
Listing NGR: SY0107287115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88631
- 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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