The Cottage
THE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105057
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105057
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE
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:
- THE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- High Bickington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 60007 20443
Details
HIGH BICKINGTON HIGH BICKINGTON SS 60 20 15/99 The Cottage (formerly listed as 4.10.60 Cottage adjoining Rose Cottage)
GV II
Cottage. Probably early C18 with probably C19 outshut. Rendered, probably over cob. Wheatstraw thatched roof, half-hipped to right. Brick end stacks. Stone rubble outshut with lean-to slate roof. Plan: Two-room central entrance plan (facing north) with end stacks, external to right. Probably C19 outshut at rear. Two-storeys with one-storey outshut. Exterior: Symmetrical front with 3 windows to first floor and 2 to ground floor; late C19 two-light small-paned wooden casements. Ground-floor late C19 canted bay to right with small-paned wooden casements of 1:2:1 lights and hipped slate roof. Central doorway with late C19 plank door and chamfered wooden frame. Rear has ground- and first-floor C19 two-light wooden casements to left. Outshut with 2-light wooden casement to right and half-glazed door to left. Interior not inspected. This cottage adjoins Rose Cottage (q.v.) on an island site at the south end of the village.
Listing NGR: SS6000620445
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91714
- 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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