Beckside Cottage and Ropley
BECKSIDE COTTAGE AND ROPLEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163705
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Beckside Cottage and Ropley
- Statutory Address:
- BECKSIDE COTTAGE AND ROPLEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163705
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Beckside Cottage and Ropley
- Statutory Address 1:
- BECKSIDE COTTAGE AND ROPLEY
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:
- BECKSIDE COTTAGE AND ROPLEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Offwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 19425 99254
Details
SY 19 NE OFFWELL OFFWELL
3/107 Beckside Cottage and Ropley - GV II Pair of cottages. Early - mid C19, Beckside Cottage was renovated circa 1980. Colour-washed local stone and flint rubble; stone rubble stack topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. Plan: pair of contemporary cottages built alongside the lane facing south-east. Originally they each had a mirror plan of the other; each a 2-room plan cottage with unheated outer rooms and the larger inner room heated by an axial stack in the party wall serving back-to-back fireplaces. Beckside Cottage is the left (south-west) cottage and Ropley the right one. Ropley appears only superficially modernised but circa 1980 Beckside Cottage was refurbished and the front doorway was blocked and a new doorway inserted in the left end wall. At the same time a single storey extension built at right angles to rear. Both cottages are 2 storeys. Exterior: overall irregular 3-window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. The right 2-window section of Ropley appears to be the original arrangement; a nearly symmetrical arrangement around a central doorway which contains a late C19 - early C20 plank door under a contemporary thatched hood. In the Beckside Cottage section a couple of windows have been blocked and the front doorway blocked by a small C20 bay window. The roof is hipped to left and half-hipped to right. Interior: not inspected although some plain carpentry detail was seen. This pair of cottages form part of a group of attractive thatch-roofed cottages with Thatch (q.v) and Thatchcote (q.v).
Listing NGR: SY1942599254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88777
- 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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