Elston and Lake Cottage
ELSTON AND LAKE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250893
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Elston and Lake Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ELSTON AND LAKE COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250893
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Elston and Lake Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELSTON AND LAKE 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:
- ELSTON AND LAKE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stockleigh Pomeroy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 87968 03934
Details
STOCKLEIGH POMEROY SS 80 SE 10/228 Elston and Lake Cottage - - II
2 adjoining houses, probably originally 1 house. Circa C16/C17 remodelling and extension of earlier house. Rendered and painted cob walls, hipped wheat-reed thatched roof with 2 brick axial stacks defining extent of original house. Probably originally 2 or 3 room cross or through-passage plan, later narrower 1 room extension, left and wider 1 room addition, right, plus C20 lean-to, front, right. 2-storeys with first floor partly in roof space. Irregular 3-window south front. Doorway to far left and within lean-to, both with C20 doors. Original doorway position possibly where third ground floor C20 window is. Left hand house has C20 window, 4-pane, 2-light casement and 12-pane, 2-light casement over in pointed arched opening. Other house has mostly 2 or 3 light small paned casements. 2 first floor windows with eyebrows; other window is C20 eyebrowed roof dormer. Rear, east end projects but first floor walling has less projection like reverse jetty. Interior of Lake Cottage has axial fireplace with bread oven and rough chamfered cross beams with run out stops and exposed joists. Roof trusses of Lake Cottage are clean and have morticed apices and lap-jointed collars. Roof space of Elston not accessible. Elston has deeply chamfered ceiling beam with bar stops.
Listing NGR: SS8796803934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433393
- 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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