Church Cottage

CHURCH COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162952
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Church Cottage
Statutory Address:
CHURCH COTTAGE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162952
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Church Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH 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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH COTTAGE

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Talaton
National Grid Reference:
SY 06765 99676

Details

TALATON SY 09 NE 6/185 Church Cottage - GV II

Cottage. Probably C18. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stacks topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. Plan: 2-room plan cottage built alongside the lane to the Church of St James (q.v) on a north-side axis with the south end as the front. The parlour at the front has a lateral stack on the left side and the kitchen behind has a projecting gable-end stack. 2 storeys with secondary lean-to outshots along the east side. Exterior: there is one window each floor. The ground floor casement may be original and it contains rectangular panes of leaded glass (another at first floor level in the rear end). The upper window is a late C19 - early C20 casement with glazing bars. The front doorway is to right of the window and it contains a C19 part-glazed 6-panel door under a contemporary flat-roofed hood on shaped brackets. The main roof is half-hipped at the front and gable-ended to rear. Interior: was not available for inspection at the time of this survey. Church Cottage is one of an exceptionally good group of listed buildings in the vicinity of the Church of St James (q.v).

Listing NGR: SY0676899677

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Legacy System number:
86941
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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