Cooksworthy Cottage
COOKSWORTHY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105062
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Cooksworthy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COOKSWORTHY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105062
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Cooksworthy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOKSWORTHY 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:
- COOKSWORTHY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55597 15598
Details
BEAFORD SS 55 15 20/9 Cooksworthy Cottage (formerly - known as Hooksworthy Cottage)
II
House. Early to mid C18 with late C19 addition and late C20 addition and minor alterations. Rendered, the C18 work said to be cob and the additions probably coursed stone rubble. Thatched roof with gable ends. Plan and development: C18 two-room plan with external end stack to north-west and small unheated room to south-east. C19 one-room addition to south-east with integral end stack and further late C20 addition beyond that. Two storeys. Exterior: Facing south-west. Three-window front, mainly 2-and 3-light C19 wooden casements, except for C18 ground-floor wooden casements to left with small panes. Blocked doorway between first and second windows from left, formerly centre of C18 cottage, replaced by late C20 circular window. Projecting bread oven with monopitch slate roof in angle to rear of left-hand end stack. C20 lean-to porch to rear. Interior: Division between ground-floor rooms removed in late C20. Open fireplace to left with plain wooden lintel. Old boarded door to rear. Wooden winder staircase in right-hand rear corner.
Listing NGR: SS5559715598
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91628
- 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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