Higher Aish Cottages
HIGHER AISH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259977
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Aish Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER AISH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259977
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Aish Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER AISH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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:
- HIGHER AISH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widecombe in the Moor
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 70542 72087
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN- POUNDSGATE SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/254 Nos.1 and 2 Higher Aish Cottages
GV II
Pair of cottages, formerly a farmhouse. Mid to late C17, with additions at the rear. Stone walls covered with roughcast. Asbestos-slated roof, formerly thatched. Granite ashlar chimneystack on right-hand gable; rendered stack, with offsets and thatch weatherings, projecting from left-hand gable-wall. 2-room plan with remains of a shippon at right-hand end. 2 storeys. 2-window front; all windows have C20 metal casements. Panels of slate-hanging between upper and lower-storey windows; slates on right covered with cement, those on left apparently renewed. There appear to be similar, but smaller panels above the upper-storey windows. Gabled entrance- porch off-centre to left; this doorway may be a later insertion. In right-hand side-wall an old plank door; above it a wooden hood with hipped slated roof. To right the stone rear wall of former shippon survives, with doorway immediately adjoining the house. Interior: of No. 2 (to right) has chamfered upper-floor beam with scroll-stops. Ground-floor fireplace has jambs of squared granite blocks; lintel rebuilt in brick. Roof-trusses, extending over No. 1, appear to be original; heavy, well-made timbers with gouged carpenter's marks, collars pegged to face of principal rafters, the latter having slots for thatching spars on their backs. There is a stone wall between the cottages in the ground storey, but only a timber-framed wall in the upper storey and none at all in the roof-space. Interior of No. 1 not inspected. Source: information from Mrs F Wilkinson.
Listing NGR: SX7054272087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441962
- 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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