Datchcott
DATCHCOTT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162117
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Datchcott
- Statutory Address:
- DATCHCOTT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162117
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Datchcott
- Statutory Address 1:
- DATCHCOTT
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:
- DATCHCOTT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Giles on the Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3341491583
Details
SX 39 SW ST GILES ON THE HEATH HELE
4/44 Datchcott
-
II
Cottage. Late C17 with late C20 renovations. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone
rubble footings, water reed thatched roof hipped at the left end, gabled at the right
end with a right end stone stack with a projecting bread oven.
A 2 room single depth cottage with a hall/kitchen at the right with a semi-circular
projecting rear stair turret. The left-hand room is unheated. The present entrance
is in the left gable end, the C17 entrance may have been on the front or the cottage
may have been larger originally with a through passage entrance which no longer
exists.
2 storeys. The garden elevation is asymmetrical, the right-hand concealed by a C20
corrugated iron lean-to, one 2-light C20 casement with glazing bars to the left. The
entrance is through a C20 glazed porch on the left return. The rear stair turret has
a 2-light window, 1-light retaining square leaded panes, a 3-light window on the left
return also preserves some leaded glass.
Interior The left-hand room has been subdivided in the C20, the right-hand room has
a C20 grate that may conceal earlier features, the late C17 doorway to the stair
turret is ovolo-moulded and stopped, the stairs have been dismantled.
Listing NGR: SX3341491583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90699
- 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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