Guildhall Cottage
GUILDHALL COTTAGE, GUILDHALL YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236053
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL COTTAGE, GUILDHALL YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236053
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILDHALL COTTAGE, GUILDHALL YARD
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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:
- GUILDHALL COTTAGE, GUILDHALL YARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Totnes
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80210 60498
Details
1. 5180 GUILDHALL YARD -------------- Guildhall Cottage SX 8060 NW 1/44A SX 8060 SW 1/44A 7.1.52.
II GV
2. Circa 1897, incorporating at the east end part of the Guildhall and prison buildings of circa 1624 (see Guildhall). 1½ storeys. 3 bays on south side; 2 window gabled front to Guildhall Yard on east side. Welsh slate roof with rendered masonry stacks. Devonian limestone, random rubble, partly rendered. 3 gabled dormers, slate-hung with decorated slate barge-boards. East bay and gabled east return with jettied, slate-hung 1st floor; carried on corner by granite columns taken from the Exchange built in 1616 and pulled down in 1878. Ground floor of south front with 3 light casement windows and segmental arched doorway with modern door. 1st floor of east front with 3 light casement windows with leaded lights. Old doorways at east end in recessed entrance to former prison. Oak framed doorways with ogee mouldings. Board and batten doors with wrought iron pegs and wrought iron reinforcement bars to prison door. Prison windows to ground floor on east return with timber surrounds, lintols and wrought iron grills. 1st floor plaque on return inscribed with list of benefactors and building date 1624.
Listing NGR: SX8021060498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426819
- 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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