Wren Cottage
WREN COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168303
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Wren Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WREN COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168303
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Wren Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WREN 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:
- WREN COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haccombe with Combe
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 89165 69884
Details
HACCOMBE-WITH-COMBE HACCOMBE SX 86 NE
11/113 Wren Cottage 23.8.55 II
Former lodge to Haccombe House (q.v.). Probably early C19, contemporary with the rebuilding of the house. Whitewashed and rendered ; deep thatched roof, carried down over a verandah on 3 sides ; axial stack with rendered shaft. Cottage ornee. Plan: 2 room plan, principal room to the front, service room to the rear. One of 2 lodges to the house, the other burnt down before 1955 (old list description). Exterior: Single-storey and attic. Symmetrical 1 window front with a 4-bay rustic verandah on renewed posts with a short eaves canopy fronted with split logs, the verandah continuing for 5-bays on each return. Canted bay window to the front with C19 casement windows with ornamental leaded panes, casement windows with ornamental leaded panes to each return. The rear bays of the verandah on the returns have been enclosed, forming a porch on the left return. Attic dormers in the thatch, 3 to the right return, 2 to the left and one in the centre with C19 casement windows with ornamental leaded panes. Interior: Not inspected. An attractive thatched lodge is an isolated position.
Listing NGR: SX8916569884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85776
- 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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