Nos 40 and 41 (Hill Cottage) Including Forecourt Retaining Wall

NOS 40 AND 41 (HILL COTTAGE) INCLUDING FORECOURT RETAINING WALL, 40 AND 41

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104521
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:
Nos 40 and 41 (Hill Cottage) Including Forecourt Retaining Wall
Statutory Address:
NOS 40 AND 41 (HILL COTTAGE) INCLUDING FORECOURT RETAINING WALL, 40 AND 41
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104521
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1958
Date of most recent amendment:
25-Sept-1990
List Entry Name:
Nos 40 and 41 (Hill Cottage) Including Forecourt Retaining Wall
Statutory Address 1:
NOS 40 AND 41 (HILL COTTAGE) INCLUDING FORECOURT RETAINING WALL, 40 AND 41

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
NOS 40 AND 41 (HILL COTTAGE) INCLUDING FORECOURT RETAINING WALL, 40 AND 41

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

County:
Devon
District:
Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Clovelly
National Grid Reference:
SS 31797 24856

Details

In the entry for CLOVELLY CLOVELLY SS 3124 11/40 No 40 (Hill cottage) including forecourt retaining wall The address shall be amended to read

SS 3124 CLOVELLY CLOVELLY 11/40 Nos 40 and 41(Hill Cottage) including forecourt retaining wall

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CLOVELLY CLOVELLY SS 3124

11/40 No 40 (Hill Cottage) including 20.2.58 forecourt retaining wall

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Cottage. Probably mid C19. Rendered and whitewashed, nipped slate roof with a clay ridge, ridge stack to the left, 2 stacks at rear with brick shafts on projecting rubble chimneybreasts. Plan : single room depth. Central entrance hall with flanking rooms. Exterior: main frontage of 2 storeys, 1:3 windows, a C19 6-pane sash window to the extreme left on the first floor, 2 C19 16-pane sash windows with exposed sash boxes, on ground floor 3 multi-paned. C19 2-light casements. Door opening to centre of right 3 windows, plank door, gabled hood, further door opening to extreme left, C19 plank door, slated hood. Left corner of the building canted. Left return with projecting 6-pane C19 shop window with hipped slate roof. Slated whitewashed rubble lean-to to right return, 2-light casement with glazing bars on ground floor, 4-light casement with lapped panes on first floor. Plank doorway with flight of rubble steps up; ornamental lamp on scrolly bracket. Forecourt of the cottage with pitched stone pavement, high rubble retaining wall.

Listing NGR: SS3179924854

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
91109
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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