Howard's, Halycon Cottage and Sunnyside House
HALYCON COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104590
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Howard's, Halycon Cottage and Sunnyside House
- Statutory Address:
- HALYCON COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104590
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Howard's, Halycon Cottage and Sunnyside House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HALYCON COTTAGE, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- HOWARD'S, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- SUNNYSIDE HOUSE, FORE STREET
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:
- HALYCON COTTAGE, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- HOWARD'S, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SUNNYSIDE HOUSE, FORE STREET
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:
- SS5703912113
Details
DOLTON
FORE STREET (south side), Dolton
SS 5712
14/72
21.2.77
Howard's, Halcyon Cottage and
Sunnyside House
GV
II
Row of 3 cottages possibly originally 4. Mid C17 to early C18. Rendered and
plastered cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof. 3 brick axial stacks.
Plan: differing plan forms suggest the cottages may have developed sequentially.
Howard's is definitely C17 and has a larger heated room to the left and small
service room to the right. Halcyon Cottage has a single room plan. Sunnyside at
present consists of 3 rooms, of which the right-hand one used to be a shop, but it
may formerly have been 2 cottages.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Howard's has a regular 2-window front of C20 1, 2 and 3-light
casements with a C20 part-glazed door to right of centre under a thatch doorhood.
Halcyon has asymmetrical 2-window front of C20 sashes without glazing bars with C20
part-glazed door to left. Sunnyside has long asymmetrical 3-window front of circa
late C19 4-pane sashes on the 1st floor and ground floor apart from late C19 or
early C20 shop front to right. C19 panelled and part-glazed door to left of centre.
1st floor windows have gables in thatch above with decorative bargeboards.
Interior: Howard's has open fireplace which appears to have been rebuilt but has
ovolo-moulded wooden lintel suggesting a C17 date. Feet of rough straight principle
rafters visible on 1st floor.
To include decorative C19 iron railings to garden area at right end of Sunnyside.
Listing NGR: SS5703912113
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90865
- 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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