Hilldene Cottage
HILLDENE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239759
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hilldene Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HILLDENE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-10-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/05674/33
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239759
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hilldene Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILLDENE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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:
- HILLDENE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Forrabury and Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0999590553
Details
FORRABURY AND HIGH STREET (west side), Boscastle
SX 0990
7/109 Hilldene Cottage
GV II
House and shop, now converted to house. Circa mid C18. Rendered and painted slate-
stone rubble. Bitumen coated rag slate roof with gable ends and lean-to rag slate
roof over outshot on front left. Slate roof with gable end to rear wing. Stone
rubble stack with rendered shaft on left hand gable end.
Plan: possibly originally of 1 room plan heated by a stack on the higher left hand
gable end. Rear wing of 1 room plan probably remodelled from lean-to outshot in
circa C19 and partly rebuilt in C20. Single storey outshot added on front left in
circa mid C19.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window front with single storey outshot on front left and
ground sloping down to right. 6-pane window and 8-pane horned sash in lean-to
outshot on left. Part glazed 4-panel door to right, flanked by two 6-pane windows.
First floor with 4-pane sash in gabled half dormer on left and 4-pane sash to right.
Interior not inspected.
Forms part of picturesque group in High Street, Boscastle.
Listing NGR: SX0999590553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68741
- 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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