Bassetts Cottages
BASSETTS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242580
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bassetts Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BASSETTS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242580
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bassetts Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BASSETTS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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:
- BASSETTS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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 76784 02894
Details
DOWN ST MARY COPPLESTONE SS 70 SE 3/160 Nos. 1 and 2 Bassetts Cottages - - II
2 cottages, possibly 4 cottages originally. C18, modernised in C20. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof. 2 adjoining 2-room plan cottages facing north-east, possibly 4 1-room cottages originally. No.1 to left (south-east) has central axial stack serving back-to- back fireplaces and with secondary outshot on the end. No.2 to right has end stacks, the right one projecting with an oven projection. At right end roof is carried down over C20 extension. 2 storeys. Overall irregular 4-window front of late C19-early C20 casements with glazing bars and C20 casements without. First floor right window is a dormer. Outer windows of No.1 appear to block former doorways and present door into outshot. No.2 has door next to front extension and a second door is thought to be blocked between it and the left window. Roof half-hipped to left and gable-ended to right. Interiors have plain carpentry detail where exposed. Right room of No. 1 has roughly-chamfered crossbeam and rubble fireplace with soffit-chamfered and runout stopped oak lintel. All early features in No.2 are blocked or plastered over. Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7678402894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441987
- 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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