Keys Cottage the Cottage
KEYS COTTAGE, 1, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214054
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Keys Cottage the Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KEYS COTTAGE, 1, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214054
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Keys Cottage the Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEYS COTTAGE, 1, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE COTTAGE, 2, EAST 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:
- KEYS COTTAGE, 1, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, 2, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73777 29840
Details
NORTH MOLTON EAST STREET (north side), SS 7229-7329 18/135 No. 1 (Keys Cottage) and No.2 (The - Cottage) GV II House, now divided. Mid C17, remodelled in the mid to late C19. Rendered, probably over stone and cob. Gable-ended C20 asbestos-slate roof. Rendered stacks. Plan: 2-room plan with central entrance leading to passage. External lateral stack to rear of each room and (probably later) integral end stack to left. Short later wing to rear of left-hand room and larger later wing to rear of right-hand room. Remodelled in the C19, when eaves were probably raised. House probably divided at some time, possibly in the C19 but probably in the C20. 2 storeys. Exterior: Not quite asymmetrical 4-window front; first-floor C19 2-light wooden casements and ground-floor C19 4-pane sashes. Roughly-central segmental-arched entrance, with C20 half-glazed passage door to right and C20 half-glazed door to left-hand cottage. C20 boarded door (probably inserted to right of right-hand ground-floor window). Interior: Left-hand ground-floor room has C17 chamfered cross beam with stepped runout stops (adzed to take later plaster, since removed). Fireplace to rear with old wooden lintel. Old floorboards to left-hand first-floor rooms. Roof-space not inspected but trusses appear to be C17. Interior of right-hand cottage not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7377729840
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398779
- 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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