Furshamdown Cottage
FURSHAMDOWN COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258375
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Furshamdown Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FURSHAMDOWN COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258375
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Furshamdown Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FURSHAMDOWN 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:
- FURSHAMDOWN COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hittisleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 71218 94435
Details
SX 79 SW HITTISLEIGH
9/151 Furshamdown Cottage
II
Farmhouse, possibly farmhouse and adjoining cottage formerly. Probably C18. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stack topped with C19 brick; thatched roof. 3-room house facing south-west with axial stack serving back to back flues right (south-east) of centre, baffle entry and outshots each end. 2 storeys. Balanced 5-window front of C19 and C20 casements some with glazing bars and (one single fixed light towards left end) with leaded rectangular panes. Door right of - centre with hipped thatch-roofed porch. Roof hipped each side and carried down over flanking outshots. Plain carpentry detail inside. Windows each side of existing doorway seem to block former doorways suggesting that original arrangement was one 2-room farmhouse to left with adjoining 1-room cottage.
Listing NGR: SX7121894435
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 444882
- 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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