Church Steps Cottages
CHURCH STEPS COTTAGES, 1,2,3,4,5,6, CHURCH STILE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104179
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church Steps Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH STEPS COTTAGES, 1,2,3,4,5,6, CHURCH STILE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104179
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church Steps Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH STEPS COTTAGES, 1,2,3,4,5,6, CHURCH STILE 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:
- CHURCH STEPS COTTAGES, 1,2,3,4,5,6, CHURCH STILE LANE
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 00975 87207
Details
SY 08 NW WOODBURY CHURCH STILE LANE, Woodbury
2/91 Nos. 1, 2 3, 4, 5 & 6 Church 10.1.85 Steps Cottages
GV II
Row of 6 cottages. Nos. 5 & 6 are late C16 (possibly earlier); No.4 probably C17, and the remainder C18 or early C19. Roughcast cob on stone footings; gabled-end corrugated-iron roof to Nos.3, 4, 5 & 6, slate to Nos. 1 & 2. The plan is very difficult to reconstruct; it seems likely that Nos. 5 & 6 were originally a small 3-room, through-passage plan house, the door to No.5 masking the site of the passage, with the higher end to the right (the hall and inner room now No.6 with a door inserted when conversion to cottages was completed; the hall chamber belongs to No.5); there is a little evidence to suggest a rear lateral stack to heat the hall; lower-end stack (now axial, formerly at the end) with brick shaft; right-hand end stack, and axial stacks to the other cottages. No.4 is an early extension to the service end of Nos. 5 & 6 and like them, of jointed cruck construction. The other cottages are C18 or early C19; all of one room, single-depth plan, the doorway giving directly into the front room; No.1 has a small barn extension, now partly converted to accommodation. 2 storeys. Front: No.1 with one 4 pane sash, a 2-light casement, and one blocked window to 1st floor, and a sahs window and late-C20 door below; No.2 with one blocked and one early C19 2-light casement window to 1st floor, a 2:2:2 pane canted bay with a planked door with rectangular fanlight to ground floor; No.3 with one 2-light casement window to both floors, and a panelled door; No.4 similar to No.3, but the windows not arranged regularly; No.5 is bigger, with 2 early C19 2-light casement windows to 1st floor, the embrasures possibly older, the lintels at eaves level; 2 later 2-light casement windows and a wide doorway below. No.6 with three 2- and 3- light casement windows similar to those of No.5; one 2- and one 3-light casement windows with door between, below. Rear: outshut under catslide to Nos. 5 & 6; leantos to others. Interior: one jointed cruck to No.4 and No.6 (No.5 not inspected internally). Roofs with straight principals to Nos. 1, 2 and 3).
Listing NGR: SY0097287210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88598
- 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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