Melrose Cottage
MELROSE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108026
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Melrose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MELROSE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108026
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Melrose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELROSE 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:
- 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.
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