Milson Cottage
MILSON COTTAGE, 34, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280996
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milson Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MILSON COTTAGE, 34, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280996
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milson Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILSON COTTAGE, 34, FORE STREET
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:
- MILSON COTTAGE, 34, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 08266 85308
Details
OTTERTON FORE STREET (north side), SY 0885 Otterton 7/156 No. 34 Milson Cottage GV II Cottage, once 2 cottages but originally part of a larger house with adjoining No. 32, Santasu Cottage (q.v.). C17 origins, rebuilt in late C18 and C19, modernised circa 1970. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with c19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. Formerly two 1-room plan cottages built end on to Fore Street and facing Box Cottage (q.v.) to west-south-west, say west. The larger of the 2 rooms is that nearest the street on the right (south). It has a projecting rear lateral stack. The left room has a large projecting gable end stack and its front is set back a short distance from the right room. Although this property appears to occupy the service end of a C17 3-room-and-through-passage plan house (the rest is now No. 32, Santasu Cottage adjoining to rear) nothing of this early house appears to survive. Cottage is 2 storeys. Irregular 2:1 window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The first floor windows are half dormers with the thatch roof lifted over. The present front doorway is on the left side of the projecting right room. The panelled door is C20 with contemporary gabled and thatch-roofed porch. Roof is gable-ended to left and half-hipped to right (the street). The street end contains a similar C20 casement with glazing bars on each floor. To rear (right of the street end) the thatch eaves are carried down over the shoulders of the stack there. Interior much-modernised circa 1970. Both fireplaces have been rebuilt and the only crossbeam (in the main right room) looks like a replacement from this date. Roof inaccessible. Milson Cottage is one of a group of attractive listed buildings along Otterton Fore Street.
Listing NGR: SY0826685308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86357
- 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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