Spring Cottage
SPRING COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106032
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Spring Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SPRING COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-08-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/04844/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106032
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Spring Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPRING 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:
- SPRING COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Tawton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6631391931
Details
SX 69 SE SOUTH TAWTON EAST WEEK
4/195 Spring Cottage
II
GV
Cottage. Probably late C18 - early C19, reusing a C16 or C17 wall. Granite stone
rubble with large roughly-dressed quoins; granite stack with granite ashlar
chimneyshaft; slate roof, formerly thatch.
Plan: small 1-room plan cottage built down the hillslope facing south-east. Gable-
end stack on downhill left end. In fact the right gable-end wall is the end wall of
a former shippon belonging to an adjoining longhouse, now converted to Pumpy Cottage
(q.v.). 2 storeys with C20 service outshots to rear.
Exterior: 1-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Wide doorway to right
contains a C20 plank door in an earlier solid frame behind a stone rubble porch.
Roof is gable-ended.
Interior not inspected.
East Week is a straggling hamlet which contains several other attractive listed
buildings.
Listing NGR: SX6631391931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94992
- 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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