Next to the Post Office and Corner Cottage
NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE AND CORNER COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172119
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Next to the Post Office and Corner Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE AND CORNER COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172119
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Next to the Post Office and Corner Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE AND CORNER 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:
- NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE AND CORNER 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:
- SX7005996739
Details
SX 79 NW SPREYTON SPREYTON
2/287 Next to the Post
Office and Corner
Cottage
GV II
2 cottages. Probably C18. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone
rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof.
Plan: pair of contemporary 2-room plan cottages facing south-west. Each
cottage is a mirror plan of the other either side of the party wall. Main rooms
are the inner rooms heated by a central axial stack serving back-to-back
fireplaces. Central small entrance hall with stairs and unheated lobby (maybe
a diary) between the main rooms. The left cottage, Next to the Post Office,
is the least altered although its left end stack may be a late C19 insertion.
The right cottage, Corner Cottage, was formerly the Post Office. Both are
2 storeys with secondary rear service outshots.
Exterior: Next to the Post Office has a vaguely symmetrical 3-window front
of C19 and C20 casements, only the oldest with glazing bars. Central doorway
contains a late C19 - early C20 part-glazed panelled door behind a contemporary
gabled porch. Corner Cottage has a more altered 3-window front of late C19
- early C20 casements with glazing bars. Here however a canted bay window
appears to occupy the site of the original front doorway and the present front
doorway is to left of it. Also a secondary doorway has been inserted through
the right windows. Continuous roof is hipped each end.
Interior: only Next to the Post Office was available for inspection at the
time of this survey and it was largely the result of a late C19 refurbishment.
Roof was not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX7005996739
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95096
- 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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