Darley Cottage
DARLEY COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291492
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Darley Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DARLEY COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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- IOE01/05593/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291492
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Darley Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DARLEY 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:
- DARLEY 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 89435 65706
Details
TORQUAY
SX8965 WATER LANE, Shiphay 885-1/9/421 (North East side) 20/11/52 Darley Cottage
GV II
House. C16 or earlier. Plastered cob; thatched roof, half-hipped at ends; axial stack with rendered shaft, external rear right corner stack. PLAN: 2-room-and-cross-passage plan. EXTERIOR: Single-storey and attic 2-window range. Fine C16 chamfered shouldered doorframe to passage with plank and cover strip front door. To the left, the thatch is carried down as a catslide over a probable oven projection. 2 ground-floor 3-light casements, glazed with C20 diamond leaded panes. Eaves thatch eyebrowed over one 2-light dormer (similarly glazed) in centre. INTERIOR: Exposed beams to cross passage. Remainder of house not seen. Roof: Said to be inaccessible. One of the most externally complete vernacular houses in Torquay.
Listing NGR: SX8943965710
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390891
- 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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