Tiny Thatch and Clovelly Cottage and Adjoining Cobbled Steps

TINY THATCH AND CLOVELLY COTTAGE AND ADJOINING COBBLED STEPS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1258944
Date first listed:
20-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Tiny Thatch and Clovelly Cottage and Adjoining Cobbled Steps
Statutory Address:
TINY THATCH AND CLOVELLY COTTAGE AND ADJOINING COBBLED STEPS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1258944
Date first listed:
20-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Tiny Thatch and Clovelly Cottage and Adjoining Cobbled Steps
Statutory Address 1:
TINY THATCH AND CLOVELLY COTTAGE AND ADJOINING COBBLED STEPS

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TINY THATCH AND CLOVELLY COTTAGE AND ADJOINING COBBLED STEPS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Sandford
National Grid Reference:
SS8281402508

Details

SS 80 SW
3/216

SANDFORD
CHAPEL COURT, Sandford
Tiny Thatch and Clovelly Cottage and adjoining cobbled steps

GV
II

House, formerly 2 cottages. Late C17-early C18 and late C18-early C19. Plastered
cob and rubble; cob, rubble and brick stacks; thatched roof. 4-room range facing
west. 2-room Tiny Thatch at left (north) end with projecting end stack and 2-room
Clovelly Cottage to right (south) with rear lateral stack to left room and rear end
corner stack to right room. Irregular 4-window front of late C19 and C20 casements
some with glazing bars, 2 to each cottage and roughly central doors. Clovelly
Cottage has C20 monopitch tiled hood. Roof gabled to left, hipped to right. Plain
carpentry detail inside. Left end room of Tiny Thatch on slightly different
alignment from rest and appears to have been a late C17-early C18 1-room cottage
originally; rest added late C18-early C19. Adjoining on west side a cobbled path
raised up into long shallow steps is included.

Listing NGR: SS8281402508

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
445829
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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