Priory Cottage Including Garden Wall to the South East
PRIORY COTTAGE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL TO THE SOUTH EAST, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197128
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Cottage Including Garden Wall to the South East
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY COTTAGE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL TO THE SOUTH EAST, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197128
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Cottage Including Garden Wall to the South East
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY COTTAGE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL TO THE SOUTH EAST, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- PRIORY COTTAGE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL TO THE SOUTH EAST, CHURCH STREET
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:
- SS 83528 00285
Details
CREDITON
SS834000 CHURCH STREET 672-1/6/18 (West side (off)) 19/03/51 Priory Cottage including garden walls to the south east
GV II
House, including garden wall. Early C18 or earlier, remodelled and extended in the circa 1930s. Roughcast cob; thatched roof with secondary ornamental ridge, hipped at ends; internal rear lateral stack with brick shaft; front right corner stack of the 1930s. Plan: single depth, 3 rooms wide. The right (east) end is a 2-phase addition: single-storey lean-to, probably C18, to right (east) end raised to 2 storeys in the circa 1930s (photograph in the possession of the owner); 1930s lean-to addition at the left end Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the first floor windows. Approximately central entrance, 1930s tiled porch on timber posts. 2- and 3-light 1930s iron casement windows with diamond panes except ground floor left which has leaded panes. The rear elevation retains 2 C18 windows: one to the former lean-to is 2-light with a moulded pegged frame, and one to the large east end room which is a 2-light casement with a pegged frame and square leaded panes.Wall to the south east is on stone footings and has corrugated iron coping. Libbet's well (q.v.) is built below the wall. Interior: Both west end rooms have probably C18 cross beams: plain to the right hand (east) room and wainey to the west end room. Original plaster survives on both ground and first floor. First floor axial corridor and joinery 1930s in a vernacular manner. Roof: Pegged A-frame trusses with X apexes of an early C18 character. There are no rafters but substantial battens instead.
Listing NGR: SS8352800285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386967
- 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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