Fordton Cottage
FORDTON COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197122
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Fordton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FORDTON COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197122
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Fordton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORDTON 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:
- FORDTON COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83974 99101
Details
CREDITON
SX8399 FORDTON 672-1/4/182 Fordton Cottage 19/03/51
II
Small gentry house. Circa 1730s origins, remodelled in a Gothick manner in the circa 1820s. Brick, stuccoed on the front, roughcast on the rear; thatched roof, gabled at ends; brick stacks with banded brick shafts. Plan: Double depth plan, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance into a passage containing the stair. 2-storey rear service lean-to to the rear.Rear addition to the lean-to includes a back kitchen.Former stable adjoining at right end has been absorbed into the house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a gable to the front in the centre. Central C19 half-glazed front door with a hoodmould and label stops. All windows also have hoodmoulds and label stops. High-transomed French windows to left and right with glazing bars and margin panes. Similar smaller casements to left and right on first floor, smaller centre window with a 2-light casement with glazing bars. The gable has a blind lozenge-shaped window with a central quatrefoil and a V-shaped hoodmould with label stops. Former stable block to right has a slate hipped roof and dormer window. The left return has a blind lozenge in the gable and a 2-light high-transomed casement below with glazing bars and margin panes. The thatch is carried down as a catslide to the rear service lean-to. Interior: Early C18 features include several 2-panel doors on the first floor, most with HL hinges and a timber first floor chimney-piece. Early C19 joinery includes panelled doors on the ground floor and a plaster cornice; stick baluster stair with mahogany newels and a ramped mahogany handrail. Photographs in the possession of the owner show that the present window embrasures on the front have been reduced in width; the earlier ones probably contained sashes. The Gothick programme may have been carried out for Mr Thomas Pring, the Clerk of the Peace for Devon, who purchased the house in 1829. Pring was succeeded by Mr Francis Drake, a London lawyer who had been born in the parish. (Pope, W.: Glimpses of the Past in and around Crediton: 1927-: 21).
Listing NGR: SX8397499101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386950
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pope, W, Glimpses of the Past in and around Crediton, (1927), 21
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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