Shorts Cottage
SHORTS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253766
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Shorts Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SHORTS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253766
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shorts Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHORTS 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:
- SHORTS 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:
- SS 55533 29867
Details
TAWSTOCK TAWSTOCK SS 52 NE 4/91 Shorts Cottage (formerly listed - as The Cottage) 25.2.65 GV II
Cottage. Late Cl7 roof raised and replaced in C20. Rendered stone rubble and cob. Concrete tiled roof with gable ends. Corrugated asbestos roof to rear outshut. Brick stack at left end and brick stack with moulded cap set just off the ridge. Single room to each side of through-passage, the hall to right heated by stack backing onto through-passage and containing the staircase running up beside the front wall. C19 continuous outshut to rear and small lean-to at right end. 2 storeys. 2 window range. C19/C20 fenestration. 2 light casements, 8 panes per light on each floor to right and 6 panes per light over 15 panes per light to left of doorway with C19 timber architrave with shaped lintel encasing a C17 door surround. C17 ledged door of 3 planks with cover strips. Interior C17 chamfered door surround with worn scroll-stopped durns to hall/through-passage doorway. Old joinery to hall with H-L hinges. C19 range in hall fireplace made by James Tucker of Barnstaple.
Listing NGR: SS5553329867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437073
- 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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