Mole Cottages Scott's Cottage
MOLE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214331
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Mole Cottages Scott's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MOLE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214331
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Mole Cottages Scott's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOLE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
- Statutory Address 2:
- SCOTT'S COTTAGE
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:
- MOLE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
- Statutory Address:
- SCOTT'S COTTAGE
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 74410 29872
Details
NORTH MOLTON SS 7429-7529 19/173 Scott's Cottage and Nos 1 and 2, - Mole Cottages GV II Row of 4 cottages, now 3. Probably early C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered cob on painted sandstone rubble plinth. Half-hipped asbestos slate roof.Corrugated-iron roof to lean-to addition. Stacks with late C20 or early C20 red brick tops. Plan and development: Row of 4 cottages sited at right angles to the road, facing south-west. Probable 2- or 3-room plan cottage to left with 2 integral lateral stacks to rear, 2-room plan cottage to centre with smaller room to right and larger room to left with integral lateral stack to rear, and 2-room plan cottage to right (formerly pair of one-room plan cottages) with integral lateral stack to rear (formerly with corner fireplace in each room). The left-hand cottage might formerly have been two cottages (see entrances to front and left-hand gable end). Probably C19 lean-to addition at right-hand gable end. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrically-fenestrated front; 9 windows to first floor and 8 to ground floor, mostly mid to late C19 small-paned 2-light wooden casements. C19 half-glazed door between second and third windows from left with slate-roofed gabled porch on shaped brackets. C20 or early C20 boarded stable-type door between fourth and fifth window from left. Pair of late C20 glazed doors, one to far right and one between second and third windows from right. Left-hand gable end with first-floor 2-light wooden casement and ground-floor boarded door with C20 casement to right. Right hand gable end with first-floor 2-light wooden casement and ground-floor lean-to addition. Interior: Ground-floor rooms with roughly chamfered cross beams. C18 winder stair at rear of central cottage (No. 1 Mole Cottage). Only the interior of the central cottage and the ground floor rooms of the right-hand cottage were inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7441029872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399112
- 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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