Church Cottage
CHURCH COTTAGE, ROBOROUGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105010
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, ROBOROUGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105010
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, ROBOROUGH
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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, ROBOROUGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Roborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5769517086
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/03/2014
SS 5717
19/182
ROBOROUGH,
Church Cottage
(Formerly listed as Elliots)
GV II
House. Probably late C16 or early C17 with probable late C17 additions. Minor late
C19 alterations. Rendered cob on stone rubble plinth, partly rebuilt and enlarged in
stone rubble. Some late C19 red brick dressings. Hipped thatched roof, hipped over
front wing with slates in valley. Rendered axial stacks.
Plan and development: Probable 2-room plan, facing north, consisting of hall to left
with end stack, central wide passage/entrance hall with C19 staircase to rear and
unheated room to right. One-room plan cross wing projecting at right angles to front
of right-hand end (possibly an addition). Small one-room plan addition to left (see
straight joints). Two storeys.
Exterior: Asymmetrically fenestrated. Hall range has first-floor C19 two-light
wooden casement and ground-floor C19 two-light window lighting hall. Wide doorway to
right with C19 plan door, beaded wooden frame and C19 slate-roofed lean-to porch.
Plank door to left too. Left-hand end of hall range has a small first-floor C19 two-
light wooden casement with wooden lintel. Right-hand cross wing has a leaded ground-
floor window with wide panes and internal wrought-iron bars. Left-hand side of wing
has a first-floor plank loft door and circa 1900 half-glazed door with bullnose brick
reveals and segmental brick head. Rear has ground-floor C19 two-light wooden
casement to right with brick reveals and wooden lintel. Rear door to passage too.
Central raking buttress to rear too.
Interior only partly inspected. Hall (present kitchen) has a pair of plastered
chamfered cross beams and large open fireplace. Wide passage with C19 boarded
partition to right and a C19 dog-leg staircase to rear. Access to the rest of the
interior denied at the time of survey (January 1988).
Listing NGR: SS5769517086
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91798
- 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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