Hope Cottage and Fern Cottage
HOPE COTTAGE AND FERN COTTAGE, STRAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104207
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Cottage and Fern Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HOPE COTTAGE AND FERN COTTAGE, STRAND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104207
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Cottage and Fern Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPE COTTAGE AND FERN COTTAGE, STRAND
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:
- HOPE COTTAGE AND FERN COTTAGE, STRAND
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 99054 84137
Details
SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE STRAND (south side), Lympstone
5/59 Hope Cottage and Fern - Cottage
GV II
2 dwellings. Late C16, with later alterations and extensions. Plastered cob, blocked to front, on stone footings; gabled-end slate roof. Originally a 3-room, through-passage plan house, much altered internally, with 2 later (C19) rear wings, higher end to left of passage; external rear lateral stack heats hall; 2 later stacks heat the inner room, now subdivided (Fern Cottage), 1, a rear lateral stack, the other a left-hand internal end stack; right-hand end stack heats service end. All stacks with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: 6-window range; three 2-pane horned sashes to first of Fern Cottage, with a 12-pane hornless sash window either side of glazed door under canopy on shaped brackets; Hope Cottage with casement windows to 1st floor; 12-pane hornless sash window to left of latticed, gabled porch, 2-light casement window to right. Iron lion masks on gutter along entire front. The rear of both dwellings with later additions, including an early-C18 (or earlier) rear wing to the service end (Hope Cottage), timber framed with brick nogging, and with C19 casement windows; the rear wing to Fern Cottage, late C19, and separately gabled. Interior: jointed cruck roof over hall and service end; 3 trusses with morticed and pegged apex carpentry; the inner room roof is later, probably C17 or C18; only the cruck above the party wall visible from the roof space of Fern Cottage, and this is clean; roofspace of Hope Cottage ceiled, but the lower members of the hall crucks visible and are chamfered. Service end with 2 chamfered ceiling beams with hollow step stops. 2 early-C18 panelled doors; Fern Cottage with chamfered, unstopped ceiling beam (to inner room) and 2 early C18 fielded panel doors.
Listing NGR: SX9905484137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88559
- 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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