Apple Cottage

APPLE COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1146999
Date first listed:
27-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Apple Cottage
Statutory Address:
APPLE COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1146999
Date first listed:
27-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Apple Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
APPLE COTTAGE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
APPLE COTTAGE

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

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Dean Prior
National Grid Reference:
SX 73023 63368

Details

DEAN PRIOR - SX 76 SW

6/10 Apple Cottage

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- II

Farmhouse, divided into two cottages. Probably circa early C16, possibly with insertion of hall floor in C17 and remodelled in C18. Colour-washed stone rubble. Bitumenised scantle slate hipped roof with heightened eaves. South end asbestos slates. Large rendered lateral stack at rear with set-offs and over. Three room and through passage plan with oriel hall stack backing onto former through passage. Lateral stack at rear of lower (kitchen) end. Unheated inner room. Through passage screen to kitchen removed and front door blocked (now a window). C20 outshut at rear and lean-to at lower end. Two storeys. Five window range. Late C18 and early C19 three and four-light casements, some with glazing bars, and wooden lintels. Right hand plank door with stone lintel. Left hand glazed door and C20 glazed porch. Interior: Hall appears to have internal jetty at inner end, jetty beam boxed in. Main hall beam also boxed in, and step stop chamfered joists. Inner room has step stop chamfered joists and square section beam and much reused timber in ceiling. Lower end has roughly chamfered ceiling beams. Roof over hall and higher end has side-pegged lap-jointed trusses. Roof over lower end has soft wood principals with side-pegged lapped collars.

Listing NGR: SX7302363368

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
99263
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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