Furzedown Cottages
FURZEDOWN COTTAGES, 1-4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242512
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Furzedown Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- FURZEDOWN COTTAGES, 1-4
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242512
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Furzedown Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- FURZEDOWN COTTAGES, 1-4
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:
- FURZEDOWN COTTAGES, 1-4
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Copplestone
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 76811 02419
Details
COLEBRXKE COPPLESIUNE SS 70 SE 3/135 - Nos. 1-4 (inc) Furzedown Cottages
- II
4 cottages, formerly farmhouse and barn. Probably C17 core, converted to cottages in C19. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick, some are plastered; thatch roof. Row of four 2-roan plan cottages facing south-west. No. 1 is the left (north- western) end cottage and No. 4 is the right (south-eastern) end cottage. Each cottage has a slightly different layout. Left end stack and axial stacks in party walls between cottages except at right end (No. 4) which has a rear lateral stack. All have circa 1960 service outshots to rear. 2 storeys. No. 1 has 2-window front with C20 casements without glazing bars to ground floor arid single first floor late C19 casement with glazing bars. Central C20 door and gabled and shingle-roofed porch. No. 2 has nearly symmetrical 3-window front of casements with glazing bars, C20 on ground floor, C19 on first including some panes of leaded glass. Central C20 door with gabled and shingle-roofed porch. Nos. 3 and 4 both have irregular 2-window fronts of C20 casements without glazing bars, and C20 doors. No. 4 has a gabled and shingle roofed porch. Continuous roof is gable ended to left and hipped to right. Buttress projects between Nos. 3 and 4 and rear of No. 2 shows projecting short midstrey walls from former barns. Interiors: show mostly late C19 and C20 detail. The former farmhouse is supposed to have been at right end but no carpentry detail is now exposed in Nos. 3 or 4. The row looks particularly attractive in the middle distance from the main Exeter- North Devon road through Copplestone Village.
Listing NGR: SS7681102419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441931
- 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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