Chelston Cottage and Attached Wall
CHELSTON COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL, OLD MILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206817
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chelston Cottage and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- CHELSTON COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL, OLD MILL ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15954/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206817
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chelston Cottage and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHELSTON COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL, OLD MILL ROAD
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:
- CHELSTON COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL, OLD MILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 90289 63796
Details
TORQUAY
SX9063 OLD MILL ROAD, Chelston 885-1/17/334 (West side) 20/11/52 Chelston Cottage and attached wall
GV II
House. C18 with an earlier rear wing. Red sandstone rubble with some grey limestone; rear wing rendered; thatched roof, gabled at ends; thatch replaced with corrugated asbestos to rear of ridge; end stacks with rendered shafts PLAN: Rectangular on plan, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance facing the stair. Rear left service wing with end stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; rear wing single-storey and attic Asymmetrical 4-window front with a central Tuscan porch with a pediment; 2-leaf panelled door. 4 first and 3 ground-floor 2- and 3-light timber casements with small panes, probably C20 replacements. The 2 windows in the left-hand bay have no relieving arches and the embrasures probably post-date the others. 3 Gothick gabled attic dormers with crank-headed casement windows. Section of wall to the right contains a segmental-headed archway to the rear service yard. The rear elevation of the main block has a large 18-pane fixed stair window and retains some slate-hanging. The rear kitchen wing, with a projecting end stack, has a 3-window front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the first floor windows, which are glazed with small-pane C20 timber casements. INTERIOR: Not inspected but noted as having features of interest.
Listing NGR: SX9028963796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390726
- 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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