Upp Cottages

UPP COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, ROOKERY HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169838
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Upp Cottages
Statutory Address:
UPP COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, ROOKERY HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169838
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Upp Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
UPP COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, ROOKERY HILL

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
UPP COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, ROOKERY HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Oakford
National Grid Reference:
SS 91029 21347

Details

SS 92 SW OAKFORD ROOKERY HILL, Oakford

5/153 Nos 1 and 2 Upp Cottages - II

2 adjoining cottages, formerly 3 cottages. Probably C18. Whitewashed and rendered with a bitumen-painted slate roof, gabled at ends; axial stack and right end stack. Plan: Single depth plan, No 1, to the right with a front door to the left; No 2 with a front door to the right formerly consisted of 2 buildings, the left hand half described as a 'workshop' in the C19. (Bentley). Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3+2 window front, the porch to No 2 recessed with a low wall flush with the front elevation; adjacent front door to No 1. Small timber 2-light casements, C19 and C20, with glazing bars except for 1 late C20 window, ground lfoor left. Interior: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. An attractive range in the centre of the village, opposite the entrance to the church. Bently records the occupations of the inhabitants from the 1871 census as an argricultural labourer, his wife and 'pauper' mother-in-law in No 2 and a shoemaker, his laundress wife and 2 children in No 1. Bentley, E.W., Oakford (1982).

Listing NGR: SS9102921347

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Legacy System number:
96801
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Sources

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Bentley, E W, Oakford, (1982)

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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