1 and 2, Thornes Cottages

1 and 2, Thornes Cottages, West Lane, Dolton, EX19 8QU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162982
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2, Thornes Cottages
Statutory Address:: 1 and 2, Thornes Cottages, West Lane, Dolton, EX19 8QU

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Date:: 2007-09-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162982
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2, Thornes Cottages
Statutory Address 1:: 1 and 2, Thornes Cottages, West Lane, Dolton, EX19 8QU

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 1 and 2, Thornes Cottages, West Lane, Dolton, EX19 8QU

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

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Dolton
National Grid Reference:: SS5693312105

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 July 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SS 5612 13/90

DOLTON WEST LANE Nos. 1 and 2 Thornes Cottages

(Formerly listed as Nos. 1 and 2 Thorn Cottages)

21.2.77

GV II Pair of cottages likely to have been one house. Circa early C18 with C19 additions. Rendered cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof. Brick axial stack and one at right gable-end.

Plan: original plan obscured by subdivision but likely to have been three rooms with the left and right-hand rooms heated. At present No 1 consists of two rooms -probably subdivided from one - and No 2 has two larger rooms. C19 outshut added behind No 1.

Exterior: two storeys. Asymmetrical three window front - 1:2 - No 1 to left. C19 small paned two-light casements with eyebrows in thatch above first floor windows which have C19 decorative barge-boards with pendant finials. No 2 to right has C20 glazed porch/conservatory to right of centre with C19 part-glazed door behind and French windows adjoining it. C20 door to No 1 in left gable-end with thatch roof outshut behind this end.

Interior: of No 1 only accessible at time of survey and exhibited no original internal features although they may have been concealed; No 2 may contain more.

Listing NGR: SS5693312105

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Legacy System number:: 90883
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.