Marine Cottage
MARINE COTTAGE, BACK WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203052
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Marine Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MARINE COTTAGE, BACK WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203052
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Marine Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARINE COTTAGE, BACK WAY
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:
- MARINE COTTAGE, BACK WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 51759 47652
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 BACK WAY 853-1/6/10 (North side) Marine Cottage
II
Detached house. Early C19. Roughcast cob and stone walls. Asbestos slated roof with red ridge tiles. No chimneys. PLAN: oblong, double-fronted plan, probably only 1-room-deep; built gable end on to the Back Way. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 at rear. 2 windows wide on entrance front (facing east), but with long unwindowed area at right-hand end. Front end wall has 1 window in each storey; sashes in recessed box frames, 3 panes per sash in ground and third storeys, 2 panes in second storey. East wall has round-arched doorway to right of ground storey, sash window to left; second storey has 2 sash windows, third storey 1 sash window to right. All sashes 8- paned, except for 2-paned ones in third storey. Rear (north) end wall, facing the sea, has canted wooden bay window with slated pent roof in second storey; 8-paned sashes in centre, 4-paned ones at sides. Window with pointed arch in third storey. Pierced and shaped bargeboards to gable. West wall has only 2 windows; 1 small one with a single sheet of glass, the other of 2 lights with wooden, mullion and transom frame. INTERIOR: original stair with column newel, square baluster. 6-panel doors with moulded frames. The house is one of the better preserved of the scatter of dwellings that occupied the northern slopes of the town before the large-scale developments of the late C19. It is shown in Banfield's map of the 1830s. (Lamplugh L: Ilfracombe: 1984-: 49).
Listing NGR: SS5175947652
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390149
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lamplugh, L, Ilfracombe, (1984), 49
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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