Springfield Cottage
SPRINGFIELD COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169523
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Springfield Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SPRINGFIELD COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169523
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Springfield Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPRINGFIELD 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:
- SPRINGFIELD COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yarcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 25023 09975
Details
YARCOMBE ST 20 NE 8/176 Springfield Cottage - - II House, formerly a small school and master's house. Dated 1875 built at the expense of Sir Francis Drake (sic.). Local stone and flint rubble laid to rough courses; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; slate roof. Plan: 3-room plan house facing south-east. The centre and left end (south-west) rooms are the former master's house. The left end room has a gable-end stack and the centre room has an axial stack backing onto the entrance hall and main stair. The right end room ws the former schoolroom. The house is 2 storeys and the former schoolroom is open to the roof. There is now (1987) a fourth room under construction at the left end. Exterior: irregular 4-window front. The 3-window section of the former masters house has original casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass (and one on the ground floor has a pattern of C20 leaded glass). The schoolroom has a full height timber 3-light mullion and transom window with a Gothic pattern of glazing bars. The front doorway is right of centre and it contains the original 2-panel doorway in which the panels are diagonal planks. The roof is gable-ended. In the rignt gable end there is another tall timber mullion-and-transom window but this one has only plain glazing bars. Above it is an inscribed Beerstone plaque recording the building of the school in 1875 by Sir Francis Drake. Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST2502309975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86731
- 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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