Riverside Cottage
RIVERSIDE COTTAGE, GLASSHOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224559
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Riverside Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RIVERSIDE COTTAGE, GLASSHOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224559
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Riverside Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIVERSIDE COTTAGE, GLASSHOUSE 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:
- RIVERSIDE COTTAGE, GLASSHOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 94598 89444
Details
The following building shall be included in the list:-
EXETER GLASSHOUSE LANE SX 98 NW Lower Wear 26/1257 Riverside Cottage II
Cottage. Circa C18 or early C19. Plastered cob. Thatched roof, half-hipped at left (north west) end and gabled at right (north east) end. Gable end stack with slate weathered set-off and red brick shaft. Plan: Small 1-room plan cottage, heated from a stack in the right hand gable end and entered through a doorway in the splayed front left hand corner. There is a winder staircase in the back left hand corner to the chamber above. In C20 a small porch was built on the splayed corner and a small outshut was added to the right hand end. Exterior: 1 storey and attic. South west front has C19 cast-iron 2-light casement with small panes at centre of ground floor. Splayed corner to left has small C20 porch clad in steel sheets and 2-light casement above. The right hand gable end has projecting stack to right and cast-iron casement on each floor to left of single light on ground floor and 2-light on first floor both with small panes. Small C20 painted brick outshut on right. Left hand end has wooden casement on ground floor. Rear elevation is blind. Interior: Chamfered cross beam. Winder stairs on rear left corner to chamber which has Cl9 cast-iron fire grate. Ledged doors. Probably original roof structure, its principal rafters and purlins exposed in chamber.
Listing NGR: SX9459889444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420657
- 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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