Box Tree Cottage

BOX TREE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272839
Date first listed:
20-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Box Tree Cottage
Statutory Address:
BOX TREE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272839
Date first listed:
20-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Box Tree Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
BOX TREE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE

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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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:
BOX TREE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE

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

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Upton Hellions
National Grid Reference:
SS 84189 03317

Details

SX 80 SW UPTON HELLIONS CHURCH LANE

3/292 Box Tree Cottage

GV II

2 cottages, now one. Mid and late C19. Plastered cob and rubble with exposed brick on rubble and rubble with brick dressings on front; rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; thatched roof. 3 room range facing south-west. Earlier 2 room plan cottage to right (south-east) has rear lateral stack to right and end (now axial) stack to left. 2 storeys. Overall balanced 5-window front. Straight butt join visible between 2 cottages. Right cottage of brick on rubble footings has door right of centre with late C19 gabled and pantiled porch with crested ridge tiles, trellis sides and front arch. Left cottage of rubble with brick dressings has late C19-early C20 brick walled porch with gabled slate roof. Ground floor windows to right are 16-pane sashes with brick segmental arches (right end sash a C20 replacement) and left end window a 2-light casement with glazing bars. All first floor windows are 2-light casements with glazing bars and have thatch eyebrows over. Roof hipped each end. Blind rear wall. Plain carpentry detail.

Listing NGR: SS8419003313

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
447514
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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