Downham's Cottage
DOWNHAM'S COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146702
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Downham's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DOWNHAM'S COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146702
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Downham's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWNHAM'S 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:
- DOWNHAM'S COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 01156 89156
Details
SY 08 NW WOODBURY WOODBURY SALTERTON (east side)
2/134 Downham's Cottage - - II
Detached cottage. Late C16, with later alterations and additions. Plastered cob on stone footings; half-hipped thatched roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan house, the higher end to the right of passage; front internal lateral stack heats hall; left-hand external end stack heats service end; inner room unheated. All stacks with brick shafts. Brick rear outshut under catslide. 2 storeys. Front: 3 window range; early C19 2- and 3-light casement windows to 1st floor, that to the service-end chamber quite early C19; five 2- and 3-light casement windows to ground floor. Interior: 2 plank and muntin screens, the to the passage and the other between hall and inner room, chamfered, carpenter's mitres, and stopped, the panels to the passage screen cut away above. Passage-screen bressumer with run-out stops. Deep chamfered axial ceiling beam to inner room; 3 cross ceiling beams to hall with run- out stops and bar; chamfered cross beam to service end with similar stops. One jointed cruck truss to service end; the other 2 trusses appear to be raised crucks, all morticed and pegged; no evidence of smoke-blackening.
Listing NGR: SY0115689156
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88649
- 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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