Biddendon Cottage
BIDDENDON COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253764
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Biddendon Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BIDDENDON COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253764
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Biddendon Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIDDENDON 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:
- BIDDENDON COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tawstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5550129855
Details
TAWSTOCK TAWSTOCK
SS 52 NE
4/90 Biddendon Cottage
-
25.2.65
GV II
Cottage. C18 but possibly earlier fabric concealed, extended in late C19. Rendered
stone rubble and cob. Thatch roof, half hipped to front end, gable end to rear.
Slate roof to late C19 kitchen range. Lateral stack to left side with offsets and
rendered shaft. Stack with bread oven projection at rear gable end.
Built gable end to the street, with 3 rooms in line, a narrow entrance hall passage
now partitioned, running from entry at front right side through to the third room at
the rear which formerly was the kitchen and which has a separate entrance from the
left side. The front room is heated by the lateral stack, the staircase entering
this room at the rear and dividing the smaller middle room from the entrance hall
passage. In the late C19 a single storey gable-ended kitchen range was added to the
rear right side forming an overall L-shaped plan.
2 storeys, single storey late C19 kitchen range. 2 window range to left side. C19
two light casements, 6 panes per light above two 2 light casements 3 panes per light
flanking plank door with deep reveal. C20 sash window at front end over 16 paned
hornless sash to left of C20 door. 2 light casement to upper storey right side with
original leaded lights and similar casement to rear gable end, the left hand light
replaced.
Interior: some old plank doors survive mostly with H-L hinges. A single C18 turned
baluster to balustrade at head of stairs. No access to roofspace, but the feet of 3
trusses with straight principals suggest the C18 roof structure is intact.
Listing NGR: SS5550129855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437071
- 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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