Berry Cottage

BERRY COTTAGE, LONGMEADOW ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104198
Date first listed:
18-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:
Berry Cottage
Statutory Address:
BERRY COTTAGE, LONGMEADOW ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104198
Date first listed:
18-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:
Berry Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
BERRY COTTAGE, LONGMEADOW ROAD

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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:
BERRY COTTAGE, LONGMEADOW ROAD

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Lympstone
National Grid Reference:
SX 99833 84064

Details

SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE LONGMEADOW ROAD (north side) Lympstone 5/36 Berry Cottage 18.11.77

- II

Detached house. Late C16 or early C17. Roughcast cob, on stone footings; gabled- end thatched roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan house, the service end to the left of the passage and heated by an external end stack; the hall heated by a front lateral external stack; the inner room, which was tiny and has been incorporated with the hall into a large single room, was originally unheated and received an internal end stack, probably in the C19. The other stacks of cob or stone, all with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: 3-window range; 2-light casement windows to first floor; the eaves line rises to the level of the lintel above these windows. French windows to service end and inner room, 2-light casement to hall. All C20. Prominent external front stack with slate weathering; the shaft is of small C17 bricks, probably imported, with 2 off-sets. Slated lean-to porch. Left-hand end stack with remains of bake oven bulge; 2 C20 windows. Rear: first floor weatherboarded; one 2-light casement window under eyebrow eaves. C19 porch, bargeboarded with apex pinnacle. 3 C20 casement windows to ground floor. Interior: 1 chamfered plank and muntin screen. 1 chamfered ceiling beam with hollow step stop to hall. Remains of stone backed fireplace to service end. Roof: higher end of 2 bays, service end of 1; 3 trusses, possibly jointed crucks, morticed and pegged at apex, trenched purlins).

Listing NGR: SX9983384064

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Legacy System number:
88536
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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