Newcombes Cottages the Old Smithy
NEWCOMBES COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106562
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Newcombes Cottages the Old Smithy
- Statutory Address:
- NEWCOMBES COTTAGES
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106562
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Newcombes Cottages the Old Smithy
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWCOMBES COTTAGES
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD SMITHY
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:
- NEWCOMBES COTTAGES
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SMITHY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coldridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 69816 05319
Details
COLDRIDGE EAST LEIGH SS 60 NE 1/37 Newcombes Cottages - and the Old Smithy GV II
2 cottages. Late C17, modernised in mid and late C20. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof and corrugated asbestos to outshots. Pair of adjoining 2-room plan cottages facing south with end stacks and stack in party wall between the cottages. Newcombes Cottage to the left (west) is a little larger than The Old Smithy. Both have secondary or rebuilt outshots to rear. 2 storeys. Overall 5-window front, 3 to Newcombes Cottage and 2 to The Old Smithy, comprising a variety of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars and including a C20 curving bay window at right end (The Old Smithy). Both has a C20 central door and porch; glazed with gabled and thatch-roofed to Newcombes Cottage, and plank with a monopitch and concrete tile roofed porch to The Old Smithy. Roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. Interiors: only interior of Newcombes Cottage inspected. It was largely result of C20 modernisation. The left room has a late C17 crossbeam, untidily soffit- chamfered with straight-out stops. Both fireplaces are blocked by C20 grates. The left room has an enormous chimney stack apparently of cob and taking up the full depth of the roof hip. Roof inaccessible.
Listing NGR: SS6981105320
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95589
- 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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