South Radworthy Cottage

SOUTH RADWORTHY COTTAGE, 1 AND 2

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1214406
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
South Radworthy Cottage
Statutory Address:
SOUTH RADWORTHY COTTAGE, 1 AND 2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1214406
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
South Radworthy Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
SOUTH RADWORTHY COTTAGE, 1 AND 2

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SOUTH RADWORTHY COTTAGE, 1 AND 2

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 Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
SS 74759 32685

Details

NORTH MOLTON SOUTH RADWORTHY SS 73 SW 10/179 Nos 1 and 2, South Radworthy - Cottage II Pair of cottages. Late C17 cottage, with adjoining cottage added in the mid to late C19. Minor late C20 alterations. C17 part is of coursed stone rubble, cement- rendered to front, and C19 additions of uncoursed sandstone rubble with red-brick dressings to openings. Gable-ended corrugated-asbestos roof over cottage (probably formerly thatched) and gable-ended Welsh-slate roof to C19 addition with C20 bitumen covering. C17 stone square stack with weatherings and string course. C19 brick stacks. Plan and development: Late C17 plan two-room cottage (facing south), consisting of principal room to right with integral end stack and staircase projecting to rear of right-hand end, smaller room (probably formerly-unheated) to left. Corner stack at rear of left-hand room, probably a C18 or C19 insertion. Mid to late C19 addition to right, consisting of one-room plan addition (present kitchen) to old cottage with front door, and separate cottage to right, with external brick end stack. Two storeys, with one-storey lean-to outshut. Exterior: Two-window front to C17 left-hand part; late C19 and C20 two-light wooden casements. Shallow battered buttress to right. C19 addition to right has 2 first floor C19 two-light wooden casements with 2-light glazed gables above, and ground- floor C19 cross window to right with brick segmental-arched head. Two C19 doorways to left (left-hand one to left-hand cottage) with brick segmental-arched heads, and C19 boarded doors (left-hand one with glazed panel) and pegged beaded frames. C19 one-storey lean-to addition set-back to right, with segmental-headed doorway. C20 one-storey lean-to addition to left-hand gable end. Interior of C17 cottage: Principal ground-floor room has roughly-chamfered spine beam and large open fireplace with C19 mantelshelf. Old winder staircase in projection at rear. Left-hand ground-floor room with roughly-chamfered spine beam, and corner fireplace to rear with C20 surround. Former external bread-oven projection in C19 right-hand room (present kitchen). First floor of left-hand cottage and interior of right-hand cottage not inspected. Site of old chapel approximately 50 metres to north-west of cottage.

Listing NGR: SS7475932685

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
399118
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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