Bromstone Cottage
BROMSTONE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250149
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bromstone Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BROMSTONE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250149
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bromstone Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROMSTONE 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:
- BROMSTONE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lapford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73128 08202
Details
LAPFORD LAPFORD SS 70 NW 4/90 Bromstone Cottage - GV II
House, former schoolmasters house. Mid C19, possibly with an earlier core. Main house has plastered rubble walls and exposed brick buttresses to rear and crosswing in partly plastered cob and C19 brickwork; rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; slate roofs. 2 room plan main house with end stack facing east. Lower service block on right (north) end with service crosswing projecting forward at the end. 2 storeys and cellar to main house. Symmetrical 2-window front to main house. 18- pane horned sashes to ground floor and 12-pane hornless sashes to first floor. Central door contains panels of leaded coloured C19 glass and overlight with glazing bars. Plain 4 bay verandah across front on floor of enormous slate flags. Plain iron posts with curving braces and glass monopitch roof. Main roof is gable-ended and plain wooden eaves cornice. Service block includes C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars and gable-ended crosswing is partly open on ground floor. Service door alongside main house and at right end of verandah is a large slate-lined cistern said to have been used for brining sides of pork. Rear elevation has 12-pane sashes, some with horns and the ground floor windows are larger than first floor windows. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7312808202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432399
- 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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