Cobb Cottage
COBB COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104591
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cobb Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COBB COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104591
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cobb Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COBB COTTAGE, 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:
- COBB COTTAGE, 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:
- SS5704112143
Details
DOLTON
FORE STREET (north side), Dolton
SS 5712
14/73
Cobb Cottage
GV
II
House. Mid Cl7 with circa early C18 addition. Rendered cob walls. Gable ended
thatch roof. Brick axial stack to wing, projecting rear lateral stack of rendered
rubble with brick shaft.
Plan: originally 2-room plan with small unheated dairy at centre which has entrance
lobby in front of it. The left-hand room is also unheated; the larger right-hand
room is heated by a rear lateral fireplace with an adjoining straight-run staircase
in rectangular projection. Wing added at front of left-hand room in C18 with
kitchen and unheated room beyond it which may have been of non-domestic use and has no room above.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front of mid-late C20 large 2-light
diamond leaded pane casements. C20 part-glazed door to their left. The wing
projects beyond it with a small outbuilding projecting from its inner face. At rear
is integral rectangular projection for lateral stack and stairs.
Interior: right-hand room has chamfered cross beam and fireplace with chamfered and
ogee-stopped wooden lintel which has had modern grate inserted. C18 built-in curved
shelves with fielded panel doors to cupboard below. Forming a passage on the 1st
floor is an original chamfered plank-and-muntin screen which extends at right angles
to form the partition to the end bedroom. Visible on the 1st floor are the feet of
substantial straight principal rafters with threaded or trenched purlins - these are
probably also Cl7 but lack of access to roof space prevents a fuller inspection.
Despite the insertion of modern windows this house retains a considerable amount of
interest in its well-preserved plan form and the unusual existence of plank-and
muntin screens on the 1st floor.
Listing NGR: SS5704112143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90866
- 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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