Riverview Cottage

RIVERVIEW COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1170850
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Riverview Cottage
Statutory Address:
RIVERVIEW COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1170850
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Riverview Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
RIVERVIEW 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.

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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:
RIVERVIEW COTTAGE

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

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
East Worlington
National Grid Reference:
SS 76476 13277

Details

EAST WORLINGTON SS 71 SE 8/10 Riverview Cottage - GV II (Incorrectly marked on OS map as Milltown Cottage). House. Early C17 but may be a remodelling of an earlier house. Cob and rubble, colourwashed, gabled straw- thatched roof; 2 stacks, one to the upper end brick, and a rendered off-ridge hall stack. Plan: 3-room and through-passage plan, lower end to right for a time used as an outbuilding, reincorporated into the house circa 1980, through-passage blocked at that time; hall with axial stack backing onto former passage, inner room with gable- end fireplace. Exterior: single storey and attic, 2:2 windows, small casements with close-set glazing bars, 3 of which C19, remainder replaced in conforming style C20. 2 inserted door openings, one into inner room and one at lower end, C20 doors. Roadside elevation in conforming style, small C19 casements, wooden lintels are exposed. Interior of central hall with lateral chamfered stepped-stopped ceiling beam, fireplace with chamfered beam, C19 oven. Inner room with fireplace, with a cambered chamfered lintel. Roof: with 2 old trusses, one over hall and one over low side of through-passage; one over hall with notched lap-jointed collar, morticed apex, one over passage with mortices for collar, collar now missing; purlins resting on backs of principals; C18 roof over the lower end.

Listing NGR: SS7647613277

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
97415
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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