Preston Cottages
PRESTON COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106098
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Preston Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- PRESTON COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106098
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Preston Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRESTON COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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:
- PRESTON COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drewsteignton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 74612 90566
Details
SX 79 SW DREWSTEIGNTON
5/54 Nos 1 and 2 Preston Cottages
II
2 cottages. Probably late C18 - early C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof. Plan: pair of contemporary 2-room plan cottages facing south-south-west, say south. Each cottage is a mirror plan of the other, and has central entrance onto staircase. The larger inner rooms are heated by an axial stack in the party wall serving back- to-back fireplaces. The small outer rooms have projecting end stacks. No 1 is the right cottage, No 2 is the left one. 2 storeys. Exterior: each cottage has a symmetrical 2-window front of C20 casements without glazing bars and central doorway containing. a C20 door behind a late C19 stone rubble porch with slate monopitch roof and segmental outer arch made of brick. Interiors not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX7461290566
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94850
- 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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