No 2 Venton Cottages and Attached Outbuilding
NO 2 VENTON COTTAGES AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105112
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- No 2 Venton Cottages and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- NO 2 VENTON COTTAGES AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105112
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- No 2 Venton Cottages and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 2 VENTON COTTAGES AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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:
- NO 2 VENTON COTTAGES AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Weare Giffard
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 48391 22900
Details
WEARE GIFFARD VENTON SS42SE No 2 Venton Cottages 7/225 and attached outbuilding II Two dwellings, now house and attached outbuilding. Mid/late C17. Roughcast stone and cob; hipped and gabled artificial slate roof; C20 brick ridge stack. 3-unit plan with cross passage to left of central hall. 2 storeys; 3-window range. C20 porch and door to left. Flat arches over late C19/C20 two-light casements. Interior: chamfered and plain beams to ground floor; C18 plank door with sneck latch to rear of passage. C17 A-frame roof with lap-jointed collars and ridge purlin set into notched apexes. Subsidiary features: 2-storey C17 outbuilding, formerly a separate dwelling, attached to right. Of roughcast stone and cob with corrugated iron roof. C20 metal door. Rear wall has C19 metal door. Interior: C17 three-bay A-frame roof with lap-jointed collars and ridge purlin set into notched apex. First-floor beams have been removed; C17 fireplace on right end wall of first floor has wattle and daub hood resting on plain corbelled bressummer.
Listing NGR: SS4839122900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91546
- 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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