The Cottage
THE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108408
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108408
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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:
- THE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thurlestone
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 67496 42965
Details
THURLESTONE THURLESTONE VILLAGE SX 64 SE 4/164 The Cottage
G. V. II
House. Early C18 and C19 with C20 alterations. Stone rubble and cob walls, plastered at the front. Gable ended thatch roof and hipped scantle slate roof to front addition. 2 gable end stacks, brick at left-hand end and brick on a rubble base to the right. Plan: original range is of 2-room plan, similar-sized rooms each with a fireplace on the end wall and divided by a central passage. At the front of the right-hand end is a C19 wing which was originally separate from the main house but connected probably in the C20. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1-window front with wing projecting from right-hand end. At centre on Ist floor is a C19 2-light casement with smell panes and above it is an Atlas firemark. Below is a C19 4-panel door with flat hood over. The wing has 2 small-paned 2-light casements on the 1st floor with large late C20 casement without glazing bars below to the right. To its left is a C20 part-glazed door. Interior: one Clf_2zpanel door survives on the ground floor. Fireplaces are modern and beams encased. C19 stairs block the passage.
Listing NGR: SX6749642965
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100861
- 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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