Crocus Cottage

CROCUS COTTAGE, 4, PRING'S COURT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195111
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Crocus Cottage
Statutory Address:
CROCUS COTTAGE, 4, PRING'S COURT

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195111
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Crocus Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CROCUS COTTAGE, 4, PRING'S 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.

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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:
CROCUS COTTAGE, 4, PRING'S COURT

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

District:
Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brixham
National Grid Reference:
SX 92320 56091

Details

BRIXHAM

SX9256SW PRING'S COURT, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/202 (North side) 10/01/75 No.4 Crocus Cottage

GV II

House. Probably C18 with early C20 doorcase. Solid roughcast walls, the front wall very thick. Slated roof. Large rendered chimney on left gable-wall. 2 storeys with garret. 2 windows wide. Central round-arched doorway. Early C20 panelled door with panelled pilasters and semicircular hoodmould; panelled reveals. Above the door a narrow, rectangular 5-paned fanlight containing coloured glass; above that what appears to be an earlier, painted-over cobweb fanlight. Windows have box-framed sashes; 8 over 8 panes in ground storey, 6 over 6 panes above. Deep, flat eaves-cornice. 2 hipped dormers with slate-hung sides; that to left has C19 eight-paned sashes, that to right a late C20 nine-paned fixed sash; each dormer has a scroll-finial, apparently of metal. INTERIOR not inspected, but front room is known to have panelled shutters. Pring's Court contains the best-preserved group of listed buildings in Lower Brixham.

Listing NGR: SX9232056091

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
383709
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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