Fern Cottage
FERN COTTAGE, MANOR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108263
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Fern Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FERN COTTAGE, MANOR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108263
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Fern Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FERN COTTAGE, MANOR STREET
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:
- FERN COTTAGE, MANOR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dittisham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 86536 54780
Details
DITISHAM SX8654 MANOR STREET 17/298 DITTISHAM (South side) Fern Cottage
GV II
House. Probably C18, extended in C19 and C20. Local slate rubble whitewashed and roughcast. Thatched hipped roof. Rendered lateral stack at rear with slate weathering and rebuilt shaft. Plan: L-shaped on plan, situated at right angles to the road. Probably originally a 2-room plan cottage, the left hand room extended into a small 1-storey wing at the front which has been heightened in C20 probably when a single storey extension was added to the front of the right hand room in the angle with the wing. Exterior: 2 storeys, 1:2-window east front. The 2 first floor windows to the right in the main range are circa late C19 or early C20 2-light casements with glazing bars. The ground and first floor windows in the end of the wing to the left are late C20 2-light casements. The C20 single storey addition to the right has a small gable at the centre and C20 casements. The right hand north end facing the road has 2-light casements on the ground floor with glazing bars, and C19, and other C20. Interior: has been much altered and there are no interesting features. Roof: Collars halved lapped and pegged to straight principals.
Listing NGR: SX8653654780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101210
- 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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