Widden Cottage
Widden Cottage, Sand Down Lane, Newton St Cyres, EX5 5DF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107071
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Widden Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Widden Cottage, Sand Down Lane, Newton St Cyres, EX5 5DF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107071
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Widden Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Widden Cottage, Sand Down Lane, Newton St Cyres, EX5 5DF
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:
- Widden Cottage, Sand Down Lane, Newton St Cyres, EX5 5DF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton St. Cyres
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87929 97088
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 May 2021 to correct the address and to reformat the text to current standards
SX 89 NE
5/23
NEWTON ST CYRES
SAND DOWN LANE
Widden Cottage
(formerly listed as Widden Cottage, SAND DOWN LAND)
II
Cottage, formerly two cottages. Mid-late C17 with C20 modernisations. Plastered cob with inserted C20 brick footings, cob stacks with C20 brick tops. Corrugated asbestos roof. Cottage made from two identical contemporary, attached cottages. Each two storeys with one-room plan. Both face south-east away from the road with front doors to left. Stacks in right-hand gables with (now disused) stairwells alongside the rear. Single front windows to each room and right cottage door now replaced by window. All casements replaced 1984. C19 'West of England' insurance plaque rear centre under the eaves.
Interior has chamfered beams with scroll stops and original roof purlins between cob gable walls. Fireplaces now blocked.
A third cottage to the left was demolished in early C20 and party wall partly rebuilt. They are said to have been miners' cottages but pre-date nearby lead and manganese works. Nevertheless Widden Cottage is rare survival of C17 single-room cottages. Incorrectly spelt 'Whidden' on map.
Listing NGR: SX8792997088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96375
- 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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