Carey Cottage
CAREY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164950
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Carey Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CAREY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164950
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Carey Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAREY 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:
- CAREY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadwoodwidger
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 39370 95315
Details
BROADWOODWIDGER ASHMILL SX 39 NE 3/49 Carey Cottage - GV II House. Circa late C18/early C19. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, slate roof half-hipped at right end, hipped at left end. Axial stone stack to right, C20 rendered stack at left end. 2-room single depth plan, originally with the right-hand room only heated and a probably integral storage room with loft over and separate entrance adjoining at the right end. Direct entry with a short screen to the right into the principal right- hand room which has an rear stair behind a partition. A stone rubble lean-to adjoins at the left. Small C20 single-storey flat-roofed addition at rear. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a central half-glazed front door under a sloping corrugated iron canopy carried on timber brackets. 2-light casement, 3 panes per light above front door is probably late C19. Other windows are 3-light casements, 8 panes per light and probably contemporary with the house. The adjoining storage room has a separate entrance on the front and a loft entrance on the right return. Interior The principal room (right-hand) has exposed joists, the fireplace is blocked. Circa late C18 panelled door into lower end. Largely unmodernized interior. The integral store at the higher end is an unusual survival.
Listing NGR: SX3937895316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90751
- 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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