Limekiln House Slipway Cottage

LIMEKILN HOUSE, STRAND

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165481
Date first listed:
11-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
Limekiln House Slipway Cottage
Statutory Address:
LIMEKILN HOUSE, STRAND
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165481
Date first listed:
11-Nov-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Limekiln House Slipway Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
LIMEKILN HOUSE, STRAND
Statutory Address 2:
SLIPWAY COTTAGE, STRAND

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LIMEKILN HOUSE, STRAND
Statutory Address:
SLIPWAY COTTAGE, STRAND

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Lympstone
National Grid Reference:
SX 98869 84073

Details

SX 98SE LYMPSTONE STRAND (West Side) 5/46 Lympstone

Limekiln House and Slipway Cottage

the previous listings shall be added to read:

SX 98SE LYMPSTONE STRAND (West Side) 5/46 Lympstone

11.11.52 Limekiln House (formerly listed as Ethy) and Slipway Cottage

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SX 98 SE LYMPSTONE STRAND (west side), Lympstone

5/46 Limekiln House and - Slipway Cottage

- II

2 dwellings. Mid C19 but incorporating earlier, possibly C17, work. Cob and stone mix, roughcast; gabled-end slate roof. Single-depth plan house of 2 rooms and central entrance hall with rear wing, and a cross wing to the right (Slipway Cottage) heated by an external lateral stack to the right-hand elevation. Main range with left-hand axial (probably originally an end) stack. 2 storeys. Front: asymmetrical 3-window range; 12-pane hornless sash windows to first floor; another larger 12-pane hornless sash window to left of central entrance; half glazed door under canopy on shaped brackets; to the right a tripartite 4:12:4 pane hornless sash window, its sill at ground level. Between this window and the door is a C20 single light window. A single-storeyed C20 extension, of roughcast brick, extends forward and to the left of this range and is not included in this listing. Cross wing (Slipway Cottage), with a first floor 2-light casement window and a ground-floor 16-pane hornless sash to inner face. Front elevation of wing with a C18 3-light attic window, 15 leaded panes per light, the central light with saddle bars; otherwise C20 windows and door. Right-hand external stack with C18 brick shaft. C19 rear brick extension. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX9886984073

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
88546
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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