Hingston Cottage
HINGSTON COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169654
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hingston Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HINGSTON COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169654
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hingston Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HINGSTON 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:
- HINGSTON COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Milton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 70039 42618
Details
SOUTH MILTON SOUTH MILTON VILLAGE SX 74 SW 5/121 Nos. 1 and 2 Hingston Cottages 26.1.67
G. V. II
Pair of cottages may originally have been one house. Early to mid C17. Rendered rubble walls possibly incorporating some cob. Thatch roof, hipped to left end and gabled to right. 2 plastered rubble stacks, one axial and one at gable end. Plan: originally may have been one house of 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to the right, which with the passage, is now No.2. Hall stack backing on to the passage and unheated inner room. C18 or C19 outshut added at the front of the lower room. C19 or early C20 leanto built behind inner room. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1-window front, 3 on the ground floor which are C20 2-light casements. The lst floor window is a half dormer with an eyebrow in the thatch above and a probably C18 square section 2-light wooden mullion window frame with C19 casements inserted. Outshut to right is under a catslide roof part of which also extends to its left as a pentice over a wide C18 plank door to No.2. No. 1 to the left has a door in a C20 glazed porch at the left-hand end. Interior: No.1 has a waney chamfered unstopped cross beam to its main room. Large open fireplace with massive chamfered slate lintel and dressed stone jambs. Oven in right-hand side. Winder wooden stairs behind partition between 2 rooms. Roof timbers renewed in late C19 or early C20.
Listing NGR: SX7003942618
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100818
- 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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