Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164283
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 8
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164283
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8
- Statutory Address 2:
- HOLLY COTTAGE
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:
- 8
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lifton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 38687 84993
Details
SX 38 SE LIFTON DUNTZ HILL
5/132 No 8 and Holly Cottage -
GV II
2 houses, formerly 1 property. Circa early C17, 2 builds. Cob and stone, Holly Cottage whitewashed and rendered, no.8 colourwashed and plastered. Asbestos slate roof gabled at ends, formerly thatched. Large projecting stack with set-offs at left gable end, lateral stack on front. Probably originally a 3 room and through passage plan with a small 2-storey gabled projection to the rear. The inner room is now a separate property (Holly cottage) and the lower end may have been dismantled beyond the through passage, which is now an end passage. In the C19 a 2-storey block was added to the rear of no.8. 2 storeys. 4 window asymmetrical front. Holly Cottage has C20 casements and a C20 front left single-storey addition used as a porch. No.8 has a front lateral stack and a C20 half-glazed porch on the front at the right. Ground floor window left 2-light C19 or C20 casement, 8 panes per light. 12-pane fixed window to right of the porch inserted in the late C20. First floor window left C20 2-light casement 4 panes per light, first floor window to right of stack 2 light C19 or C20 casement, 6 panes per light. Rear entrance through gabled projection, 2- light casement with glazing bars to first floor of projection. Interior of no.8 retains a through passage with timber lintels to front doorway and rear doorway leading into new build at rear. The hall has chamfered stopped cross beams and a large fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel partly concealed behind a later lintel. 1 casement window in what was the rear wall of the house survives. Large C18 cupboard doors conceal a former doorway to the inner room. The ground floor of the rear projection has rounded plastered walls and may have been a stair projection although the construction of the ceiling uncovered during 1980s renovations suggests that the projection was 2 storeys at an early date. The inner gable of the projection was formerly filled with a cob wall. Large principals visible in the upstairs rooms, 1 above the passage has a curved foot supported on a probably C19 timber pad. Stud and plaster partition walls to middle first floor room, the wall adjoining Holly cottage continues to the roof apex. Roofspace not inspected, rafters removed during 1980s re-roofing are not smoke-blackened. Interior of Holly cottage not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX3868884988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92377
- 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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