Court Cottages
COURT COTTAGES, COCKINGTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208375
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Court Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- COURT COTTAGES, COCKINGTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208375
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Court Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT COTTAGES, COCKINGTON LANE
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:
- COURT COTTAGES, COCKINGTON LANE
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 89447 63853
Details
TORQUAY
SX8963 COCKINGTON LANE, Cockington 885-1/16/349 (North side) 20/11/52 Court Cottages
GV II
Formerly known as: Cockington Trust and Estate Office COCKINGTON LANE Cockington. House, converted to house and shop. c1700 with C20 alterations. Plastered stone rubble and cob; thatched roof with a plain ridge, half hipped at ends; 2 projecting front lateral stacks with stone shafts; right end stack. PLAN: Built into the slope of the land. Long single depth 3-room plan, the left end room probably converted from an agricultural building or cider house (cobbled floor and drain found during renovations). EXTERIOR: Picturesque. 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 5-window front (4 first floor windows); C20 stone rubble buttresses. Eaves thatch eyebrowed over right-hand window and swept down at left end. Approximately central C20 two-leaf small-pane glazed front door. Alongside to the right, a projecting lateral stack with bread oven and an adjoining projecting windowed bay. Second doorway to right of centre. Good set (6 in all) of c1700 high-transomed 2-light mullioned windows, moulded on the inner face, glazed with square leaded panes, some preserving original window furniture; other windows small 2-light casements. Left return (part of the present shop) has a large, 3-light window with square leaded panes. INTERIOR: Plain carpentry detail; some c1700 2-panel doors. Roof: A-frames with lap-jointed collars of a c1700 character, extended at both ends of the range. Part of a group of exceptionally attractive listed buildings in an unspoilt village.
Listing NGR: SX8944763853
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390553
- 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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