Crossway and Cross Cottage
CROSSWAY AND CROSS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105161
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crossway and Cross Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CROSSWAY AND CROSS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105161
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crossway and Cross Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSSWAY AND CROSS 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:
- CROSSWAY AND CROSS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Monkleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4555720768
Details
SS4520
17/145
MONKLEIGH
Crossway and Cross Cottage
GV.
II
House, now 2 dwellings. Late C16/early C17; late C19 external
alterations. Render over stone and cob; gabled slate roof; C20
rendered right end stack; C17 rendered external stone stack to
left gable end; similar lateral stack, to centre of front wall,
rebuilt at top c. 1986. 4-unit plan with parlour to left, hall
to centre and service range to right. 2 storeys; 5-window range.
Crossway, to left of lateral stack, has C20 two-light first-floor
casements above half-glazed door flanked by segmental arches over
similar casements. Cross Cottage to right, of 3-window range,
has flat rendered arches over C20 casements of up to 4 lights and
C20 porch with C19 plank door set in chamfered surround.
Right-end gable rebuilt c. 1986. Late C16/early C17 stair
projection and C20 outshut to rear. Interior: Cross Cottage has
stop-chamfered beams on ground floor. Crossways retains good
late C16/early C17 interior features: front door opens into room
on left, which has late C16/early C17 plank and stud partition
with ogee-stopped chamfers to studs: stop-chamfered bressummer
over open fireplace to left; fine plasterwork to overmantle has
initials A and E entwined in love knot with date 1709, set in
scrolled foliate surround; early C18 plasterwork to ceiling,
with cornice and oval panel with wreathed surround. Room to
right has two panels of C17 plank and stud partition; chamfered
beam with roll and ogee stop; C19 winder stairs to rear. First
floor has C17 stop-chamfered doorframe leading from stairs to
gallery along rear wall, which has early C19 two-panelled door
and C19 plank door to rooms. Late C16/early C17 A-frame roof of
heavy scantling with lap-jointed collars and ridge purlin set in
notched apexes.
Listing NGR: SS4555720768
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91463
- 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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