Prospect Cottage
PROSPECT COTTAGE, PROSPECT HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108007
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PROSPECT COTTAGE, PROSPECT HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108007
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROSPECT COTTAGE, PROSPECT HILL
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:
- PROSPECT COTTAGE, PROSPECT HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Slapton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 82006 45128
Details
SLAPTON PROSPECT HILL SX8245 SLAPTON 11/91 Prospect Cottage
GV II
Small house. C17 or earlier origin and with later alterations. Slate rubble ground storey, roughcast first storey probably of cob and rubble. Asbestos tile roof with gable ends. Gable end and front lateral stacks with later brick shafts. Plan: 2-room plan with central cross or through passage with central porch at front, the larger room at the lower left end heated from a lateral stack at the front, the smaller right hand room as a gable end stack. The central passage has been blocked by a later partition and a staircase has been put into the rear right hand corner of the left hand room of the original house. At the lower left end there is what appears to be a later extension but which might be the lower end if the house were originally of 3 room plan. Both parts have had their roofs raised. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window north east front to road. Late C19 or C20 2-light casements with glazing bars, the first floor casements have had overlights added probably when the eaves were raised. Doorway to right of centre with large slate rubble open-fronted porch with slate lean- to roof and stone seats on the side walls inside; the left side of the porch probably contains the oven of the lateral stack. At the lower left end a lower 2-storey range with steps up to a large porch on the front and a small casement above. The rear elevation was not inspected. Interior: Was not accessible at the time of the survey in 1988. The lower left room of the original house has one chamfered cross-beam and another chamfered half beam in the left end wall, their stops not seen.
Listing NGR: SX8200645128
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99877
- 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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