VIRGINIA COTTAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108228
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: VIRGINIA COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: VIRGINIA COTTAGE

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Date:: 2004-10-26
Reference:: IOE01/13220/17
Rights:: © Mr Keith Mackenzie. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108228
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: VIRGINIA COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: VIRGINIA 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:: VIRGINIA COTTAGE

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

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Harberton
National Grid Reference:: SX 77770 58678

Details

HARBERTON SX7658-SX7758 HARBERTON 14/424 Virginia Cottage

GV II

Small house. Circa 1840-50 remodelling of an earlier house. Local slate rubble with red brick window dressings. Rendered left end and rear walls and slate hung right hand end wall. Projecting gable end chimney stacks with set offs. The massive right hand end stack is slate hung and probably incorporates some of the stack of an adjoining building which has been demolished. Moulded cast iron gutter with lion masks to the joints. Plan: Appears to be double depth plan house with two principal front rooms with central entrance stair hall, and probably with smaller service rooms at rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window range. All original openings with red brick cambered arches and jambs and slate cills. Original 16-pane sashes retaining their crown glass. Centre first floor window is also iriginal but narrow 8-pane sash and probably the stair window. Central doorway with C20 slate rubble porch with lean-to slate roof. C20 casements at rear. Interior not inspected but might contain C19 features.

Listing NGR: SX7777158677

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Legacy System number:: 101328
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.