Buckstone Cottage
BUCKSTONE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243638
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Buckstone Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BUCKSTONE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243638
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Buckstone Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUCKSTONE COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- BUCKSTONE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upton Hellions
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 84119 03366
Details
SS 8O SW UPTON HELLIONS CHURCH LANE
3/293 Buckstone Cottage
II
House. C18 and circa 1820. Partly plastered cob on rubble footings, partly plastered rubble; rubble stacks with C19 brick chimney shafts; slate and thatched roofs. 2 parallel ranges. Circa 1820 front range facing south-west with C18 cottage now used as rear service block. 2 room front range with end stacks and central staircase plan. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front with central C20 door but original panelled reveals and flat roofed porch on Tuscan columns, the sides now filled. Flanking 16-pane sashes and central first floor 12-pane sash. Deep eaves and slate roof hipped each end flanked by brick chimney shafts. Rear 4-window front of irregularly disposed casements, 3 possibly C18 flat-faced mullion casements with leaded glass; the outer ground floor 3-light windows and first floor window over door. Similar first floor right window contains original green-tinged leaded glass. Thatched roof hipped both ends. Good interior includes circa 182O plasterwork and joinery including geometric stair with stick balusters and mahogany handrail lit by cupola with delicate moulded plaster frieze. Buckstone is said to have been the Dower House of the Ferguson-Davies of Creedy Park, Sandford.
Listing NGR: SS8411703368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447515
- 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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