Holly Cottage
HOLLY COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280021
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLY COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05593/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280021
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLLY COTTAGE, WATER 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.
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:
- HOLLY COTTAGE, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 89426 65682
Details
TORQUAY
SX8965 WATER LANE, Shiphay 885-1/9/423 (South West side) 10/01/75 Holly Cottage (Formerly Listed as: WATER LANE, Shiphay Collaton Fern Cottage and Fern Bank)
GV II
Shown on OS map as Fern Cottage. House. Probably late C18, altered and extended in the late C20. Plastered cob; thatched roof, hipped at ends; end stack. PLAN: End on to the road and adjoining Fern Bank (qv) at the corner. Possibly originally an outbuilding to Fern Bank. EXTERIOR: Single storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window front with three C20 small-pane timber casements to the ground floor and the eaves thatch eyebrowed over one attic window; 2 windows in the end wall. The house has been extended both to the rear and the left with an adjoining wing. INTERIOR: Not inspected but said to have been altered, including relocating the stair. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SX9035163170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390893
- 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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