Well Cottage
WELL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107943
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Well Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WELL COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107943
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Well Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL COTTAGE
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:
- WELL COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stokenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80737 42931
Details
SX8042 STOKENHAM STOKENHAM
14/221 Well Cottage (formerly listed
as Bray Cottage)
GV II
House. C17 or earlier with C18 and C20 alterations. Rendered stone rubble
and possibly some cob. Thatched roof with gabled left end and hipped right
end, the right hand part of roof is clad in slate. Left hand gable end and
right hand front lateral stone stacks with brick shafts and slate
weathering.
Plan: 2 room plan with a central cross or through passage into which a
staircase has been inserted. The left hand room is heated from an end stack
the right hand room has a lateral stack at the front and a small unheated
room at the back is a short wing, behind which is a single storey
outbuilding converted into a kitchen.
Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical, 3-window south east front with a
projecting lateral stack to right with slate weathered set-offs and tall red
brick shaft. 3 C20 metal-frame 2-light casements on first floor and 3 C19
2-light casements on ground floor, all with glazing bars and slate sills.
Doorway to left of centre with C19 panelled door and late C19 or C20 porch
with lean-to shingle roof and C20 glazed door.
Rear: C20 glazed door on right and 9-pane fixed light window to its left.
To left a short gabled 2-storey wing extended in a single storey outbuilding
(now the kitchen).
Interior: Left hand room has later ceiling joists and fireplace with slate
jambs and flat arch. Right hand room also has later joists and blocked
fireplace in front lateral stack. On first floor plank doors.
Circa C18 roof structure, the collars lapped and pegged on face of straight
principals.
Listing NGR: SX8073742931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100005
- 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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