FUSCHIA COTTAGE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1104979
Date first listed: 16-Feb-1989
Statutory Address: FUSCHIA COTTAGE
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Location
Statutory Address: FUSCHIA COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish: St. Giles in the Wood
National Grid Reference: SS 53778 18084
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
ST GILES KINSCOTT
SS 51 NW IN THE WOOD
18/211 Fuschia Cottage
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GV II
Cottage. Late C17 or C18, enlarged circa 1880. The older part is plastered stone
rubble with cob; stone rubble stack topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. The
extension is exposed, snecked local stone with brick dressings and quoins; the stack
is similar, slate roof.
Plan: 3-room plan cottage facing south-south-east, say south. The older part to left
(west) was built as a 2-room plan cottage. The larger left room has a gable-end
stack with projecting oven housing was the living room. Small unheated service room
to right is now used as a kitchen. Circa 1880 a parlour was added on the right
(east) end. It is set back from the front of the old cottage and has a projecting
gable-end stack. 2 storeys with lean-to outshut on the right end.
Exterior: Irregular 2:2-window front of late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars.
Doorway to the older section of left contains a late C19 - early C20 plank door and
the right section has a late C19 part-glazed plank door behind a C19 porch.
Interior: has plain carpentry detail where exposed. Roof not inspected although the
bottoms of straight principals show on the first floor.
Fuschia Cottage is part of a group of attractive listed buildings in the hamlet of
Kingscott.
Listing NGR: SS5377818084
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 91830
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.
End of official listing