Lower Westcott Cottages

LOWER WESTCOTT COTTAGES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105875
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Lower Westcott Cottages
Statutory Address:
LOWER WESTCOTT COTTAGES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105875
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Lower Westcott Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER WESTCOTT COTTAGES

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOWER WESTCOTT COTTAGES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Cullompton
National Grid Reference:
ST 01916 04534

Details

CULLOMPTON WESTCOTT ST 00 SW 8/138 Lower Westcott Cottages - - II 2 dwellings, formerly a single farmhouse. C16 with later alterations. Cob, stone plinth, plastered, under gabled-end slate roof. Originally a 3-room, through-passage plan, the higher-end to the right of the passage. End stacks, that to the right external, with an external front lateral stack with 2 paired set-offs, heating hall. Brick shafts to all. 2 storeys. Front: 4-window range; 2- and 3-light C19 casement windows to 1st floor;, the front of the former parlour is now largely obscured by a C19 brick and rubble extension with attached C20 conservatory. C19 casement windows to ground floor, with rough open timber porch to former passage entrance. Rear: stair turret with ovolo-moulded 2-light window; C19 and C20 rear extensions. Interior: both passage screens survive, that to the left-hand side chamfered and pegged, that to the right unchamfered and grooved, with a later 2-light internal window inserted; rough axial beam to lower-end room; blocked rear window to hall; large fireplace, roughly worked; large cross beam between hall and parlour partly visible. The bases of 2 crucks survive but have apparently been sawn off below the level of the collar; it is reported that these fragments are not smoke-blackened. No.2 (the parlour) not inspected internally.

Listing NGR: ST0191604534

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
95328
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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