Numbers 1-6 Railway Cottages
1-6 RAILWAY COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104656
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-6 Railway Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- 1-6 RAILWAY COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104656
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-6 Railway Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-6 RAILWAY COTTAGES
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:
- 1-6 RAILWAY COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashwater
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4046702800
Details
SX 39 NE
2/9
ASHWATER
Railway Cottages Nos 1-6 (consec)
II
Row of 6 cottages. Late C19. Probably brick, slate-hung to the front with a slate
roof gabled at ends with deep eaves and chamfered timber eaves brackets. 6 chimneys
on ridge with slate-hung shafts, each with a single-room on either side of entrance
in a single-depth ranges. 2 storeys. Long symmetrical 16-window front with
chamfered timber eaves brackets. Narrow front doors with integral rectangular
fanlights and slate-hung reveals under slated porch canopies carried on timber
brackets. 1-, 2- and 3-light casements, 2 panes per light, with slate-hung reveals
and bullnose brick sills. Nos 3-6 inclusive retain their original fenestration and
front doors, no. 2 has original glazing to the first floor only and a replaced front
door, no. 1 has C20 glazing and a C20 front door.
Interior not inspected.
The cottages were probably associated with Dunsland Cross railway station on the
Halwill to Bude line, opened 1879.
Listing NGR: SS4046702800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90711
- 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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