Mill Cottage

MILL COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1215413
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1977
List Entry Name:
Mill Cottage
Statutory Address:
MILL COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1215413
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1977
List Entry Name:
Mill Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
MILL 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILL COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Twitchen
National Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
SS 78816 30171

Details

TWITCHEN TWITCHEN MILL SS 7830-7930 17/220 Mill Cottage 26.4.77 II Methodist chapel and attached manse, now house. 1860. Minor late C19 addition and late C20 alterations. Sandstone, roughly-dressed to front and uncoursed rubble to sides and rear, with some red-brick dressings to chapel. Gable-ended Welsh-slate roof. Red brick stacks. Plan: Former manse to right and former chapel to left (facing south), situated at right angles to the road. Manse with plan of 2 rooms, central entrance and integral end stacks. Chapel to left also with integral stacks. Continuous lean-to outshut at rear, probably a later C19 addition (see straight joint to side). Brick stack to rear of right-hand end room of lean-to. Two storeys with one-storey lean-to outshut and chapel. Exterior: Three-bay front to manse; small-paned 2-light wooden casements, with wooden lintels to first floor and stone flat-arched heads to ground floor. Central C20 glazed door with C20 gabled glazed porch. Three-bay front to chapel too; outer pair of large windows with brick round-arched heads and C20 small-paned wooden lights with radial fans. Central C19 four-panelled door (lower 2 panels flush) with brick segmental head and C19 shallow gabled bracketed porch. Door approached by flight of external stone steps with wrought-iron railings. Interior not inspected. sources: C Stell, Draft inventory of nonconformist chapels in Devon, RCHME.

Listing NGR: SS7881630171

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
400626
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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