April Cottage
APRIL COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165423
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- APRIL COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-08-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/04953/15
- Rights:
- © Mr John Hawkins. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165423
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- APRIL COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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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:
- APRIL COTTAGE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingsteignton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87181 73072
Details
KINGSTEIGNTON FORE STREET, Kingsteignton SX 87 SE 5/134 April Cottage
GV II
House. C17 or earlier origins, C19 and C20 modifications. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings; slate roof, gabled at left end; left end stack. April Cottage, gable end to Fore Street, is sited facing a narrow court at right angles to the street. The building was formerly 1 build with the adjacent No 37 but the original plan is difficult to decipher. The present plan is single depth, 2 rooms wide, the left hand room probably a C17 parlour originally with a newel stair adjacent to the stack, later replaced by a straight stair. The smaller right hand room has been partitioned off at the rear to form a small kitchen (formerly a dairy), the present entrance is directly into the right hand room. In the C20 a projecting first floor bathroom was added at the rear. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical front with only one window at the first floor. C20 porch on front at right; 2 ground floor 2-light windows, 3 panes per light, 1 first floor C20 casement. The left gable end, facing Fore Street is extremely irregular. Interior Ground floor left has a C20 grate, possibly concealing earlier features and an ovolo-mouled axial beam with step stops. A straight C19 stair rises against the rear wall; the rounded rear left corner of the room indicates the position of a former newel stair. No access to apex of the roof at time of survey (1986), the principal rafters visible upstairs are largely concealed but the purlins are of large scantling and the roof structure may pre-date the C17. The position of the front door has been altered several times: at one stage it was to the left of the present entrance giving direct access into the left hand room, at another period it was on the left gable end and the house was entered on the Fore Street side. The building was formerly known as Town Court, then Fox's Tenement and withNo 37 (q.v.) appears to have been a town farm.
Listing NGR: SX8718173072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85391
- 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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