Doone Cottage
DOONE COTTAGE, BRITON STREET LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214830
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Doone Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DOONE COTTAGE, BRITON STREET LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214830
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Doone Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOONE COTTAGE, BRITON STREET 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:
- DOONE COTTAGE, BRITON STREET LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunsford
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81319 89091
Details
DUNSFORD BRITON STREET LANE, (east side), SX 88 NW Dunsford
6/37 Doone Cottage -
GV II
House. Circa late C17. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, thatched roof gabled at ends, axial stack, right gable end stack. Small 3 room and through passage plan house the lower end to the right, the hall stack backing on to the passage, heated lower end room, and unheated inner room. At one time divided into 2 cottages but now 1 property. 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the 2 first floor half-dormers. Centre right front door into passage, second half-glazed door into lower end to the right. 2- and 3-light casement windows with small panes except ground floor right where the small panes have been replaced. Interior Large hall fireplace partly blocked by C20 range, lower end fireplace blocked by a C20 grate. The lower end room (right) has a chamfered cross beam with stops, chamfered cross beam to passage, exposed joists to inner (left-hand) room. A newel stair in the lower end room has been replaced by a later stair, second winder stair in inner room. C17 chamfered doorway between hall and inner room and 2 early doors. No access to apex of roof at time of survey (1985) but the trusses over the lower end appear to be C17, the roof over the higher end may have been replaced. An attractive small C17 house forming a group with other listed properties in Briton Street Lane.
Listing NGR: SX8132389086
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399767
- 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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