The Cot Including Front Courtyard Wall
THE COT INCLUDING FRONT COURTYARD WALL, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106718
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Cot Including Front Courtyard Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE COT INCLUDING FRONT COURTYARD WALL, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106718
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Cot Including Front Courtyard Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COT INCLUDING FRONT COURTYARD WALL, NEW 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:
- THE COT INCLUDING FRONT COURTYARD WALL, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chulmleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 68610 14137
Details
CHULMLEIGH NEW STREET (east side), SS 6814 - 6914 Chulmleigh 7/85 The Cot, including front courtyard wall GV II Small cottage. Probably C18. Painted rendered stone rubble and cob. Hipped thatch roof with plain ridge. Lateral stone rubble stack with brick shaft to left side. Compact 1½ room plan cottage built at right angles to the street with direct entry to front end into principal heated room with small scullery at rear to right of winder staircase. C20 single storey kitchen extension with lean-to roof, but incorporating cob wall to rear probably converted from outbuilding extends at right angles towards rear of left side. Exterior: 2 storeys. Single 3 light casement 2 panes per light on each floor to front end, the ground floor window to left of C20 door. Interior: raised and fielded dado panelling to rear wall of front room. Original fireplace intact but concealed by C20 grate. Otherwise C19 joinery entirely intact. Roof: not accessible but feet of slender principals and hipped ends visible confirming a C18 date. Included is the attached front cob courtyard wall with corrugated iron capping extending from front left side of cottage. The cot is a particularly interesting and unspoilt example of a small 1 1/2 room plan cottage surviving close to a market town centre.
Listing NGR: SS6861014135
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97263
- 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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