Lower Yeatson Cottage
LOWER YEATSON COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218745
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Yeatson Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER YEATSON COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218745
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Yeatson Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER YEATSON 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:
- LOWER YEATSON COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashprington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81104 56496
Details
ASHPRINGTON SX85NW BOW 6/36 Lower Yeatson Cottage
II
Pair of attached cottages, converted into one house. Circa 1830. Local stone rubble consisting of bluestone and shale with local limestone window arches; the ground storey has been colourwashed. Scantle slate roof with gable ends and deep eaves. Projecting stone rubble gable end stacks with short brick shafts. Plan: Single depth pair of attached one-room plan cottages with a pair of doorways at the centre of the front leading to staircases against the party wall. The cottages are built into a high bank at the rear where the ground is at about first floor level. In the C20 they were converted into one house, the left hand doorway blocked and the left hand staircase taken out to enlarge the left hand room. Exterior: 3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front, centre windows blind. All the windows have tent-shaped pointed arches of dressed limestone and 2-light casements with Y-bars; the glazing bars or leading are missing. A pair of central doorways (the left hand doorway has been blocked) under a hipped slated canopy on shaped brackets. The right hand door is C20 and the left hand doorway has a casement inserted. 2 doorways at the back enter the first floor left hand room and the room above; both are under a later outshut. Interior:: Only the simple boxed in straight staircase of the right hand cottage was seen; it is intact.
Listing NGR: SX8110456496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100945
- 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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