Yen Cottage
YEN COTTAGE, HEASLEY MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288685
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Yen Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- YEN COTTAGE, HEASLEY MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288685
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Yen Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEN COTTAGE, HEASLEY MILL
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:
- YEN COTTAGE, HEASLEY MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73711 32203
Details
NORTH MOLTON HEASLEY MILL SS 73 SW 10/156 Yen Cottage - GV II House. Probably early C18, remodelled in the mid to late C19. Rendered, probably over stone rubble. Gable-ended scantle-slate roof. Brick stacks. Plan and development: Three-room plan, with axial stack between 2 principal rooms to left. Left-hand end room with integral end stack (possibly a later addition) and entrance to front. Unheated right-hand end room, divided longitudinally, possibly a later addition. The house was incorporated in a formal composition with the neighbouring Heasley House Hotel (q.v.) in the early C19, also including Heasley Cottage (q.v.). Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrically-fenestrated front, with 3 windows to first floor and 4 to ground floor; mid to late C19 two-light wooden casements. Doorway between first and second windows from left, with C20 half-glazed door and C20 rendered gabled porch with glazed door. Interior: Ground-floor rooms flanking axial stack have roughly-hewn cross beams (possibly formerly cased). Window seat in left-hand room. Old boarded doors throughout.
Listing NGR: SS7371132203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398973
- 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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