Leacroft Cottage and Spinning Wheel Cottage
LEACROFT COTTAGE AND SPINNING WHEEL COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204754
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leacroft Cottage and Spinning Wheel Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LEACROFT COTTAGE AND SPINNING WHEEL COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204754
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leacroft Cottage and Spinning Wheel Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEACROFT COTTAGE AND SPINNING WHEEL COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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:
- LEACROFT COTTAGE AND SPINNING WHEEL COTTAGE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 08378 85336
Details
OTTERTON FORE STREET (north side), SY 0885 Otterton 7/147 Leacroft Cottage and Spinning - Wheel Cottage GV II 2 cottages. Probably late C18 - early C19, modernised in late C19 and again circa 1970. Plastered walls, probably cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or brick stack topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. Plastered brick outshots with slate roof. Pair of contemporary 2-room plan cottages facing south-east onto Fore Street, Leacroft Cottage on the left (south-west) and spinning Wheel Cottage on the right (north-east). Cottages have similar plans, each a mirror of the other each side of axial stack in party wall which serves back-to-back fireplaces. Behind the inner rooms are probably secondary 2-storey outshots. Although each cottage has a 2-window front of C20 casements about central C20 door. The fenestration is not symmetrical. Roof is gable-ended and outshots are also gabled. Interiors include plain carpentry detail where exposed. Leacroft Cottage and Spinning Wheel Cottage form an attractive group with the many ether listed buildings along Otterton Fore Street.
Listing NGR: SY0837885336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86348
- 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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