Withy Windle Cottages

WITHY WINDLE COTTAGES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1263063
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Withy Windle Cottages
Statutory Address:
WITHY WINDLE COTTAGES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1263063
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Withy Windle Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
WITHY WINDLE COTTAGES

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
WITHY WINDLE COTTAGES

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

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Puddington
National Grid Reference:
SS 83318 10618

Details

PUDDINGTON PUDDINGTON SS 81 SW 3/218 - Withy Windle Cottages GV II

2 Cottages, formerly 3 cottages. Probably early C19 with late C19 modernisation and extension. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks with C19 brick chimney shafts; thatched roof. L-shaped block on corner site with main range facing south- west and rear wing at right end facing south-east. No. 1 in main range comprises a 3-room cottage, an original 2-room cottage with third room (formerly a 1-room plan cottage) added to left (north-west) end. Rear lateral stacks to 2 original rooms, the left stack including an oven projection. No. 2, at right angles to No. 1, comprises a 3-room plan cottage with projecting rear lateral stack to central room, now disused and without a chimney shaft. 2 storeys. Irregular main south-west front has 4 windows to first floor, 5 to ground floor. First floor has regular row of late C19 2-light casements with glazing bars and glazed triangular heads with radial glazing bars. The eaves of the thatch rise as small gables over each window. Ground floor has late C19 and C20 copy casements with glazing bars including 2 with unusually tall glass panes. 2 doors, both with C20 hipped thatch-roofed porches. Roof is hipped each end. Rounded corner on right between 2 fronts. 3-window south- east front (No. 2) has similar casements to south-west front including small thatch gables over triangular heads of first floor windows. Plank door near left end. Roof gable-ended to right. Both interiors have similar plain carpentry detail where exposed and rubble fireplaces with plain oak lintels. In No. 1 both fireplaces have replacement lintels and left fireplace is partly rebuilt with C19 brick. Roofs not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS8331810618

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Legacy System number:
433350
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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