April Cottage and Park View
APRIL COTTAGE AND PARK VIEW, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250507
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage and Park View
- Statutory Address:
- APRIL COTTAGE AND PARK VIEW, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250507
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage and Park View
- Statutory Address 1:
- APRIL COTTAGE AND PARK VIEW, FORE STREET
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:
- APRIL COTTAGE AND PARK VIEW, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morchard Bishop
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 76899 07568
Details
SS 7607 - 7707
11/166
MORCHARD BISHOP,
FORE STREET (south-west side),
April Cottage and Park View
GV II
2 cottages, formerly at least 3 cottages. Probably C18. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob or rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; continuous thatch roof covered
with corrugated iron to rear and over hip. Pair of semi-detached cottages facing north-east with April Cottage on the leaf (south-east) and Park View on the right (north-west). April Cottage is a 3-room plan cottage with end stack serving the left room and rear lateral stack serving right room. This right room may originally have been a separate 1 room plan cottage. Park View is a 2-room plan cottage with rear corner stack to right room and C20 flat-roofed single storey extension to front of left room. Both cottages are 2 storeys. April Cottage has irregular 3-window front of late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. C19 6-fielded panel door with C20 gabled and thatch roofed porch which incorporates late C19 cast iron decorative brackets. Park View has irregular 2-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Roof is gable-ended to left (April Cottage) and hipped to right (Park View). Interiors show plain carpentry detail where exposed. Rubble fireplace in right room of April Cottage includes Bideford cloam oven complete with door. Roof inaccessible but feet of principals in April Cottage suggest C18 A-frame trusses.
Listing NGR: SS7689907568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432898
- 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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