Ashleigh Cottage Ivy Cottage
ASHLEIGH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172105
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ashleigh Cottage Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ASHLEIGH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172105
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ashleigh Cottage Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHLEIGH COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- IVY 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:
- ASHLEIGH COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- IVY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Spreyton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 69932 96781
Details
SX 69 NE SPREYTON SPREYTON
1/285 Ashleigh Cottage and Ivy Cottage
GV II
2 cottages. Late C17, Ivy Cottage modernised with rear service extension of circa 1980. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stack topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. Plan: pair of contemporary 2-room plan cottages facing south. Each was a mirror plan of the other either side of the party wall which contains an axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. The left cottage, Ashleigh Cottage, preserves the original layout more or less intact comprising a large inner heated room and small unheated outer room (a dairy/pantry) central doorway into the main room. The rear outshot maybe an original feature. In Ivy Cottage the 2 rooms have been knocked into one, the front doorway blocked and replaced by one round the corner and into a new C20 rear block which has replaced the outshot. Both cottages are 2 storeys. Exterior: overall 5-window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars (the older ones are oak-framed). The 2-window section to Ashleigh Cottage is nearly symmetrical about the central doorway which now contains a C20 panelled door behind a contemporary gabled porch. Ivy Cottage has a 3-window front, the central ground window here is blocking the original front doorway. The roof is half-hipped to right and gable-ended-to left. Interior: in Ashleigh Cottage no carpentry detail is exposed and the fireplace is blocked by a C20 grate. Nevertheless there is some early, maybe original, joinery detail, a couple of bead-moulded doorframes containing old plank doors. By contrast in Ivy Cottage the carpentry detail is exposed. The stone rubble fireplace has a soffit-chamfered and runout-stopped oak lintel and contains an oven relined in the C19. The main crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with straight-cut stops. Roof throughout of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.
Listing NGR: SX6993296781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95094
- 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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