Sunday School Cottage Shown on OS Map As Sunday School House

SUNDAY SCHOOL COTTAGE SHOWN ON OS MAP AS SUNDAY SCHOOL HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261402
Date first listed:
28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
Sunday School Cottage Shown on OS Map As Sunday School House
Statutory Address:
SUNDAY SCHOOL COTTAGE SHOWN ON OS MAP AS SUNDAY SCHOOL HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261402
Date first listed:
28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
Sunday School Cottage Shown on OS Map As Sunday School House
Statutory Address 1:
SUNDAY SCHOOL COTTAGE SHOWN ON OS MAP AS SUNDAY SCHOOL HOUSE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SUNDAY SCHOOL COTTAGE SHOWN ON OS MAP AS SUNDAY SCHOOL HOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Cruwys Morchard
National Grid Reference:
SS 87197 12186

Details

SS 81 SE CRUWYS MORCHARD CRUWYS MORCHARD 2/83 Sunday School Cottage shown on OS - map as Sunday School House II Sunday school, converted to cottage. 1844 (datestone) with late C20 conversion and rear addition. Volcanic trap ashlar, whitewashed and rendered on the gable end walls, freestone dressings; slate roof, gabled at ends; projecting right end stack with brick shaft, remnants of similar left end stack which has been dismantled. Plan: The 1844 Tudor style block is a small building, rectangular on plan and formerly single-storey and divided into 2 rooms with a central entrance. The conversion to a cottage has involved flooring the building, removing the internal partition and the addition of a rear extension. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 bay front with a plinth and central gabled porch with kneelers and a rounded moulded stone doorway. Datestone of 1844 carved in relief in the porch gable with the text, "deus minereatur, PS. LiVII". 2-light stone mullioned windows flank the porch with Tudor arched lights and square-headed hoodmoulds with label stops. The original ornamental iron glazing bars survive. 2 gabled roof dormers with C20 glazing. 1986 conservatory added at left end. Interior Apart from the porch doorways no original fittings. The doorways retain texts, carved in relief : "give us our daily bread", seen on entering and "deliver us from evil" on the way out. A pretty C19 Tudor building on a roadside site.

Listing NGR: SS8719712186

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
437709
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.

Ordnance survey map of Sunday School Cottage Shown on OS Map As Sunday School House

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