KING'S COTTAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107723
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: KING'S COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: KING'S COTTAGE

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Date:: 2005-09-11
Reference:: IOE01/14766/33
Rights:: © Mr Hedley R. Hooper. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107723
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: KING'S COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: KING'S COTTAGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: KING'S COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Bishop's Tawton
National Grid Reference:: SS5725428577

Details

SS 52 NE 10/14

BISHOPS TAWTON King's Cottage

II

House. Early C19, with end bay added c.1900. Whitewashed rendered rubble and some cob. Thatch roof, hipped with brick stacks at each end, axial brick stack and rubble stack to rear of right-angled gabled rear extension with slated offsets. L- shaped on plan with right-angled kitchen extension to rear left end. Single rooms each side of entrance, originally towards centre, but now displaced to left with addition of slightly projecting right-hand bay. Cottage ornee style. 2 storeys with cellar. 4 window range of mainly C19 centre-hinged casements, of 2-lights except third from left which is of 3-lights. French windows to ground floor plinth level to each side 1/2-glazed panelled door with blind fanlight with stone steps up to each side with 4 newel posts with ball finials, wooden handrail and decorative wrought iron work to the platform. C19 verandah roof with swept up ends to original facade supported on rustic timber posts. Gabled projections to right has 3-light window with individual C20 sashes to each light. Narrow 2 storey projection to rear with half-hipped roof to resemble early porch but with no entrance. Flat roofed C20 extension in brick in the angle of the L-shaped to right and slated gabled roof to C20 porch extension to left. Much of the C19 internal joinery intact including open well staircase with stick balusters and moulded handrail elaborately swept up to square newels.

Listing NGR: SS5725428577

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Legacy System number:: 98492
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.