Mole Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to East
MOLE COTTAGE AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253435
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mole Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to East
- Statutory Address:
- MOLE COTTAGE AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253435
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mole Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOLE COTTAGE AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO EAST
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:
- MOLE COTTAGE AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Atherington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 59120 22972
Details
ATHERINGTON ATHERINGTON SS 52 SE 5/31 Mole Cottage and cottage - adjoining to east
GV II
House and cottage adjoining to east. Formerly one tenement farmhouse, the lower end rebuilt as small single cell cottage, the house part itself later divided into 2 cottages (as at time of previous survey) but now returned to single occupation. C17, lower end rebuilt probably in late C18. Rendered stone rubble and cob. Thatch roof with gable ends, the cottage with lower ridge height. Rendered rubble stack at right end and rear lateral hall stack with off-sets. Brick stack at left end. Through-passage plan, with front and rear openings now blocked, hall and parlour to right. Lower end possibly originally a shippon rebuilt as small single cell cottage. 2 storeys. 5 window range. C19/C20 fenestration, 2-light casements, 2 panes per light. 2 large buttresses to Mole Cottage. Ground floor has 2-light casement, 6 panes per light to left of C20 door to cottage. Two 3-light casements, 2 panes per light, that to left inserted in blocked through-passage doorway. Doorway punched through into hall with plank door, and 2-light casement 2 panes per light at right end. Leanto at right end with corrugated asbestos roof. Hall and parlour windows to rear built out in line with hall stack with pantiled canopy. Interior: ceiling beams to hall and parlour with wide chamfers and step stops. A section of the through-passage plank and muntin hall screen survives, 4 panels wide and 4-centred arch to chamfered door surround with old 3 plank door. Enclosed under the introduced stairs in the hall is a straight-headed C17 door surround corresponding with a similar door surround in the chamber above, both set in the wall and indicating that a former projecting stair turret has been demolished. C17 roof structure largely intact with 3 heavy trusses with short curved feet, lap- jointed collars and 2 tiers of trenched purlins and diagonally set ridge purlin. No sign of smoke-blackening.
Listing NGR: SS5912022972
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436641
- 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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