Thornton's, Porch Cottage and Greenaway
THORNTON'S, PORCH COTTAGE AND GREENAWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169661
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Thornton's, Porch Cottage and Greenaway
- Statutory Address:
- THORNTON'S, PORCH COTTAGE AND GREENAWAY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169661
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Thornton's, Porch Cottage and Greenaway
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNTON'S, PORCH COTTAGE AND GREENAWAY
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:
- THORNTON'S, PORCH COTTAGE AND GREENAWAY
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 70003 42615
Details
SOUTH MILTON SOUTH MILTON VILLAGE SX 74 SW 5/123 Thornton's, Porch Cottage and Greenaway 26.1.67 G.V. II
Row of 3 cottges, possibly formerly one house. Circa early - mid C17, subdivided probably in C19 and again in later C20. Plastered rubble and cob walls. Gable ended thatch roof. 3 rubble stacks with dripcourses, one axial and one at each gable end. Plan: currently 3 one-room plan cottages with rear outshuts but probably built as a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house with lower end to the left, hall heated by stack backing onto passage and with shallow window bay at the front. Divided into 2 cottages at higher end of hall in the C19; hall and lower end recently also subdivided. C19 rear outshuts built. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1 : I : 1 window front. Thornton's to the left has small-paned circa early C20 2-light casements and a C20 stable-type door to the right. Porch Cottage at the centre has late C20 2-light casements without glazing bars. The shallow hall bay at its right-hand end has been converted into a porch with a stable-type door. Small original squint window in its left-hand wall. Greenaway to the right has a C20 2-light casement without glazing bars on the 1st floor and a small-paned one below. C20 part-glazed door to the left. Interior: Porch Cottage only accessible and it did not exhibit any early features, the other cottages however, may be more unaltered inside. These cottages preserve a very traditional appearance externally.
Listing NGR: SX7000342615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100820
- 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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