Whyddon Court
WHYDDON COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171637
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whyddon Court
- Statutory Address:
- WHYDDON COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171637
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whyddon Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHYDDON COURT
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:
- WHYDDON COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drewsteignton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 68703 92431
Details
SX 69 SE SOUTH TAWTON WHIDDON DOWN
4/253 Whyddon Court (Roseland Cottage on O.S) 28.10.87 II
Cottage. Mid - late C17, renovated circa 1980. Plastered granite stone rubble, maybe with cob; stone rubble stack with granite ashlar chimneyshaft; thatch roof. Plan: L-shaped building. The main block faces north. It had a 3-room plan. Small unheated right (west) end room was probably originally a dairy. An axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces is between the other 2 rooms and lobby entrance between. Now the centre and right rooms have been knocked together. Unheated 1- room plan rear block (now the kitchen) projecting to rear of right end. This may be secondary. 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 3-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Front doorway is left of centre and now contains a C20 door behind a contemporary gable and thatch-roofed porch. Main roof is gable-ended and rear block roof is half- hipped. Interior: both main rooms have plain soffit-chamfered crossbeams and the fireplaces are granite rubble with bead-moulded oak lintels. Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX6870392431
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95055
- 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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