Kelly Cross Cottage
KELLY CROSS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166104
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kelly Cross Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KELLY CROSS COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-08-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/04987/02
- Rights:
- © Mr Ernie W. King. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166104
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kelly Cross Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KELLY CROSS 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:
- KELLY CROSS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lustleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7903981901
Details
LUSTLEIGH
SX 78 SE
1/161
Kelly Cross Cottage
II
Cottage. Late C16 or early C17, with added lean-to. Roughcast cob with thatched
roof, half-hipped at-right-hand side. Rendered stone chimneystack with thatch
weatherings and tapered top on left-hand gable. Projecting brick stack, also
rendered, in right-hand gable. 2-room and through-passage plan, the rear doorway
blocked by a later staircase; larger left-hand room was clearly the hall. 2
storeys. 2 widely-spaced windows wide, with doorway between. Windows have old
wooden casements, except for left-hand ground-storey window which is C20. Plank
door and wooden porch, also C20. In lean-to to left an older plank door with
strap-hinges. In right-hand gable a C18 or early C19 metal casement with leaded
panes; the upper part of the opening, now blocked, rises into the roof-space.
Interior: in left-hand gable in ground storey a fireplace with granite jambs and
chamfered wood lintel having step-stops; large oven in the back. To left of
fireplace a winding granite staircase. In ground-floor room to right a chamfered
upper-floor beam with run-out stops. Roof has 2 original trusses with plain, heavy
principal rafters sitting on the wall-tops; halved collars with shaped ends,
through purlins and ridge. The common rafters seem to have been renewed. The
partition wall and chimney in the roofspace over the room above the hall are
plastered. Well-preserved cottages of this date are uncommon.
Listing NGR: SX7903981901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84604
- 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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