Higher Hill Cottage
HIGHER HILL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273451
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Hill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER HILL COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273451
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Hill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER HILL COTTAGE
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 HILL COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hittisleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7265294373
Details
SX 79 SW
9/152
HITTISLEIGH
Higher Hill Cottage
II
Cottage. Late C17-early C18, extended in 1941 and again circa 1980. Plastered cob
on rubble footings; cob stack topped with C20 brick; thatched roof. C20 building
materials unknown. Originally 2-room cottage facing south-east comprising unheated
entrance hall with larger room heated by axial stack backing onto entrance hall.
Extended to right (north-east) in 1941 and to rear circa 1980. 2 storeys.
Irregular 4-window front overall of C20 casements. Original 2-window cottage at
left with door to right (now roughly central) behind C20 monopitch thatch-roofed
porch. To right eaves level rises and thatch lifts over 2 first floor windows.
Roof hipped each end. Cottage interior largely original with beam and oak
fireplace lintel both chamfered with runout stops.
Listing NGR: SX7265294373
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 444883
- 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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