MELROSE COTTAGE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108026
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- Statutory Address:
- MELROSE COTTAGE
Map
© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2020. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
Use of this data is subject to Terms and Conditions.
The above map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. For a copy of the full scale map, please see the attached PDF - 1108026.pdf
The PDF will be generated from our live systems and may take a few minutes to download depending on how busy our servers are. We apologise for this delay.
This copy shows the entry on 18-Jan-2020 at 20:35:36.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MELROSE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blackawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80458 50813
Details
BLACKAWTON
SX85SW Melrose Cottage
2/29
II
Cottage. Probably late C18 or early C19, extended later in C19 and again in
late C20. Painted stone rubble, scantle slate hung first floor. Asbestos
slate roof with gabled ends. Rendered gable end stacks with wreathed caps
to shafts and yellow clay pots.
Plan: Original house was of 2-room plan with an entrance to left of centre
into a lobby at the bottom of the stairs which is situated between the 2
rooms. Both rooms are heated from gable end stacks, the right-hand room is
the larger. Later in the C19 a 2-storey 1-room plan addition was built at
the right-hand end, slightly set back. In the late C20 a 2-storey wing was
added to the rear of the left-hand room.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2:1 window range the right-hand window
in the later C19 extension set back. All late C19 or early C20 2 and 3-
light casements with glazing bars, some repaired in late C20. Doorway to
left of centre with a late C20 plank door and circa late C19 or early C20
open-fronted porch with a slate lean-to roof. At the rear the late C20
extension is a gable-ended rear wing.
Interior: At the centre a straight staircase with stick balusters. There
is also some other C19 joinery intact.
Listing NGR: SX8045850813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99818
- 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.
End of official listing