Silks Silks Cottage
SILKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107073
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Silks Silks Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SILKS
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16072/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107073
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Silks Silks Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SILKS
- Statutory Address 2:
- SILKS COTTAGE, 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:
- SILKS
- Statutory Address:
- SILKS COTTAGE, 2
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 86652 98648
Details
NEWTON ST CYRES SMALL BROOK SX 89 NE 5/27 Silks and - No 2, Silks Cottage
- II Former farmhouse, now 2 cottages. Early C16, extended in Cl8. Plastered cob on stone footings; cob or stone chimney stacks topped with Cl9 brick; thatched roof. A 3-room and through passage plan along road with inner room to left (north-west end). C18 extension to service end (most of No 2, Silks Cottage). The subdivision of the property, C19 and C20 plaster and wallpaper and some added partitions hide the original layout. Now 2-storeys throughout. 6 window front. Irregular fenestration with Silks having Cl9 and C20 casements (most with glazing bars), and No 2, Silks Cottage all 1983 casements. Massive lateral stack projecting from hall and Silks front door immediately to right. The large recess at first floor level right of the stack is thought to represent position of former 2-storey porch projecting into the road over a now-blocked main door. Smoke-blackened roof over hall supported on side-pegged-jointed crucks. Some original framing exposed in roofspace. C16 moulded and stopped beams in hall. Cob-walled outshot behind hall. Much early work is hidden particularly in Silks. Left front corner and stack rebuilt circa 1930 and No 2, Silks Cottage renovated and enlarged in 1983.
Listing NGR: SX8665298648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96378
- 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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