MADGE'S COTTAGE, VINE COTTAGE AND THE OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE

MADGE'S COTTAGE, CROSS HANDS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104588
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:: MADGE'S COTTAGE, VINE COTTAGE AND THE OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: MADGE'S COTTAGE, CROSS HANDS

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Date:: 2002-03-29
Reference:: IOE01/05707/12
Rights:: © Dr Ann Allen. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104588
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:: MADGE'S COTTAGE, VINE COTTAGE AND THE OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: MADGE'S COTTAGE, CROSS HANDS
Statutory Address 2:: THE OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE, CROSS HANDS
Statutory Address 3:: VINE COTTAGE, CROSS HANDS

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: MADGE'S COTTAGE, CROSS HANDS
Statutory Address:: THE OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE, CROSS HANDS
Statutory Address:: VINE COTTAGE, CROSS HANDS

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

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Dolton
National Grid Reference:: SS5725412217

Details

DOLTON

CROSS HANDS, Dolton

SS 5712 14/68

Madge's Cottage, Vine Cottage and The Old School Cottage

21.2.77 GV II

Row of 3 cottages. Circa later (:17 to early C18 with C19 additions. Plastered cob walls. Thatch roof gabled to right end hipped to left. Brick axial stack, one at right gable end and rear lateral stack. Plan: the 2 outer cottages have a 2-room plan, the central one has a 1-room plan. C19 rear outshuts. Single storey 1-room C19 addition at end of The Old School Cottage - probably the former school room. Exterior: 2 storeys. Madge's Cottage to left has asymmetrical 2-window front of small-paned C19 or early C20 2-light casements with a C20 part-glazed door to the left and a leanto C19 porch to the right with similar door. Vine Cottage at centre as asymmetrical 1-window front of C20 3-light casements and a leanto porch to right with C20 part-glazed door. Old School Cottage to the right has a regular 2-window front of C19 2-light casements to the left and early C19 12-pane sashes to the right. Central leanto porch with early C19 6-panel door behind. Lower slate roofed addition at right-hand end. All 1st floor windows have small gables in the thatch above. Interiors inaccessible at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SS5725412217

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

Legacy System number:: 90861
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.