Lower Combe Cottage
LOWER COMBE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242513
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Combe Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER COMBE COTTAGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14733/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242513
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Combe Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER COMBE 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 COMBE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colebrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 77942 01014
Details
COLEBROOKE LOWER COOMBE SS 70 SE 3/136 Lower Coombe Cottage - GV II
House. late C17 with mid C19 and circa 1950 modernisations. Plastered cob on rubble footings, mended with rubble and brick; rubble and brick stacks with circa 1950 brick chimney shafts; thatch roof. 2-room plan cottage facing south with projecting front lateral stack to larger right (east) room and end stack to left room. Circa 1950 service block to rear of left room. 2 storeys. Irregular fenestration with 3 ground floor and 2 first floor windows, all mid C19 iron-framed casements with cast iron pattern of hexagonal panes with narrow margin panes. Door left of centre behind C20 gabled and thatch-roofed porch with door in side and front window of leaded glass. The right room breaks forward slightly. The plaster is lightly inscribed as ashlar. The projecting front stack rebuilt circa 1950, and at same time left end wall rebuilt. Roof is gabled to left and hipped to right. Interior: right room has a chamfered and straight cut stopped crossbeam and original fireplace, though blocked and outside stack rebuilt, is said to survive. Left room has a plain chamfered crossbeam but here original fireplace demolished when end wall rebuilt. Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7794201014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441932
- 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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