Corner Cottage and Wellsteps
CORNER COTTAGE AND WELLSTEPS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146615
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Corner Cottage and Wellsteps
- Statutory Address:
- CORNER COTTAGE AND WELLSTEPS
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15868/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146615
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Corner Cottage and Wellsteps
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORNER COTTAGE AND WELLSTEPS
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:
- CORNER COTTAGE AND WELLSTEPS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunkeswell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 14060 07665
Details
DUNKESWELL DUNKESWELL ST 10 NW 5/32 Corner Cottage and Wellsteps 17.5.79 GV II 2 cottages. Late C17 - early C18, some C19 service additions, both modernised circa 1980. White-washed local stone rubble, maybe with some cob; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof, with slate to rear outshots. Plan: pair of contemporary mirror-plan cottages built down the hillslope and facing north. Uphill at the right (west) end is Corner Cottage and Wellsteps is the left cottage. Origianlly each cottage had a 2-room plan with through passage between. Each had a larger room on the outside with a gable-end stack and small unheated inner room. In both cases the passage partition has been removed to enlarge the heated room. Corner Cottage has a single storey 2-room plan extension projecting at right angles to rear of the left end (behind the unheated room and former passage). Wellsteps has secondary service outshots to rear. Both cottages are 2 storeys. Exterior: each cottage has 2 ground floor windows and one first floor window, mostly C20 casements with glazing bars. Each cottage has a central front doorway containing a C20 door under a monopitch hood with shaped vallance. The roof is gable-ended. Interior: no carpentry detail is exposed in Corner Cottage but the fireplace is sandstone ashlar with a chamfered oak lintel and contains a C19 oven. (It was lined with new stone circa 1980). Wellsteps has a similar fireplace and here is a chamfered axial beam across the heated room and site of the former passage. The roofs were not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST1406007665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86587
- 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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