Cob Cottage
21 AND 23, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105348
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cob Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 21 AND 23, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105348
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cob Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21 AND 23, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- COB COTTAGE, NORTH STREET
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:
- 21 AND 23, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- COB COTTAGE, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 66408 01872
Details
NORTH TAWTON NORTH STREET, North Tawton SS 60 SE 13/117 Nos. 21 & 23 and Cob Cottage GV II 3 Cottages, originally one house. C16 with C17 alterations divided probably in C19. Rendered cob walls. Gable ended thatched roof. 2 rendered stacks, one offset from ridge at left gable end, one at right gable end. Plan: now comprises a 1-room plan cottage to the left, the right-hand cottage has 1-room at the front and another in a rear wing. Originally may have been a 2 or 3- room and through passage plan, possibly truncated at one end. Probably C17 or C18 wing behind right-hand end which was divided off to form Cob Cottage. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, No. 21 to left, No. 23 to right. C20 2-light casements on first floor in small openings. No. 21 has C19 2-light small-paned casement to the left and a C20 part-glazed door to the right. No. 23 has a 3-light small-paned C20 casement to the right of a C20 part-glazed door. Wing extends to its rear, part of which is Cob Cottage. Interior: No. 21 shows evidence of an early truss with curved feet on the first floor but no access to it in roof space.
Listing NGR: SS6640801872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93000
- 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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