Chaffcombe Cottage
CHAFFCOMBE COTTAGE, CHAFFCOMBE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242551
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chaffcombe Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHAFFCOMBE COTTAGE, CHAFFCOMBE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242551
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chaffcombe Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAFFCOMBE COTTAGE, CHAFFCOMBE 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:
- CHAFFCOMBE COTTAGE, CHAFFCOMBE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Down St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 75753 03058
Details
DOWN ST MARY CHAFFCOMBE LANE SS 70 SE 3/159 Chaffcombe Cottage - - II
Cottage. Probably C17 with C19 extension. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof to main cottage, corrugated iron to extension. Original 1-room plan cottage facing south with right (east) end stack. 1-room extension set back from front with end stack. 2 storeys. Main block has 2-window front of various late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. The left ground floor door probably blocks original front door. Slate roofed oven projection at right end. Roof is gable-ended and at right end original chimney shaft has been extended in C20. Extension has a single C19 casement with part-glazed panelled door to left and C20 glass-fronted conservatory across front. Roof gable-ended. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7575303058
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441986
- 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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