Prudence Cottage and Modesty Cottage
PRUDENCE COTTAGE AND MODESTY COTTAGE, 26A AND 28, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165347
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Prudence Cottage and Modesty Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PRUDENCE COTTAGE AND MODESTY COTTAGE, 26A AND 28, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165347
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Prudence Cottage and Modesty Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRUDENCE COTTAGE AND MODESTY COTTAGE, 26A AND 28, HIGH STREET
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:
- PRUDENCE COTTAGE AND MODESTY COTTAGE, 26A AND 28, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatherleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 54246 04372
Details
HATHERLEIGH HIGH STREET, (south side), SS 5404 Hatherleigh 11/42 Nos 26A and 28 - (Prudence Cottage and Modesty Cottage) GV II
Pair of cottages. C17 with C18 addition. Plastered and rendered cob walls. Gable ended thatch roof. Projecting rendered rubble stack with brick shaft at left gable end, brick stack at right-hand end. Plan: No. 28 has 1-room plan with rear wing, No. 26A has 2-room plan, right-hand room heated, with rear wing - both wings probably C18. Exterior: No. 28 to left has asymmetrical 1-window front of late C20 leaded pane 2 and 3-light casements, the 3-light window to ground floor has arched lights. C20 plank door to right. No. 26A has a 2-window front of circa late C18 or early c19 horizontal sliding 12-pane sashes on first floor with low rails in front of them. C20 2 and 3-light casements on ground floor. C20 glazed door at centre under flat doorhood. Interior of No. 26A has open fireplace with chamfered and stopped wooden lintel. On the first floor the feet of straight principal rafters are visible but there is no loft access. No. 28 has a C17 chamfered ceiling beam with straight-cut stops. It also has no loft access but heavy purlins are visible on the first floor suggesting an early roof structure.
Listing NGR: SS5424104369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93150
- 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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