Seal Point and Cottage Adjoining at North West
SEAL POINT AND COTTAGE ADJOINING AT NORTH WEST, DRY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163910
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Seal Point and Cottage Adjoining at North West
- Statutory Address:
- SEAL POINT AND COTTAGE ADJOINING AT NORTH WEST, DRY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163910
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Seal Point and Cottage Adjoining at North West
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEAL POINT AND COTTAGE ADJOINING AT NORTH WEST, DRY LANE
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:
- SEAL POINT AND COTTAGE ADJOINING AT NORTH WEST, DRY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Christow
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX8311385448
Details
CHRISTOW DRY LANE, Christow
SX 88 NW
2/107 Seal Point and cottage adjoining
at north west
GV II
House and adjoining cottage. Mid/late C17, C20 alterations. Whitewashed rendered
cob and stone; thatched roof, half-hipped at ends back to back fireplaces in axial
stack projecting through roof to rear of ridge.
Plan: Single depth 2 room plan house (Seal Point) to the left, 1 room plan adjoining
cottage, possibly slightly later, at the right. The house has 2 heated rooms with
back to back fireplaces, probably parlour to the left, kitchen to the right and is
entred on the front at the left. Newel stair to rear of left hand room remodelled
with an extra flight in the C19 or C20. Cottage not inspected but probably 1 room on
plan ; tiled lean-to clad in corrugated iron adjoins at right end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 plus 2 window front ; thatched gabled porch to
Seal Point at left, C20 porch and front door to adjoining cottage at left, 2- and 4-
light timber casements with glazing bars.
Interior: Chamfered crossbeam to left hand room which has a fireplace with a
chamfered lintel carried on a plastered over corbel ; Newel stair with timber treads
and risers within rear outshut. The right hand room has an open fireplace with a
scroll-stopped timber lintel and brick-lined bread oven.
Roof: Apex not inspected, principal rafters visible on first floor appear to be
straight.
One of a group of early houses at the higher end of Christow.
Listing NGR: SX8311385448
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85626
- 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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