Higher Cottage Including Outhouse Adjoining to North West
HIGHER COTTAGE INCLUDING OUTHOUSE ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST, TOTNES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291624
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Cottage Including Outhouse Adjoining to North West
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER COTTAGE INCLUDING OUTHOUSE ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST, TOTNES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291624
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Cottage Including Outhouse Adjoining to North West
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER COTTAGE INCLUDING OUTHOUSE ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST, TOTNES ROAD
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 COTTAGE INCLUDING OUTHOUSE ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST, TOTNES ROAD
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 89412 63765
Details
TORQUAY
SX8963 TOTNES ROAD, Cockington 885-1/16/383 (South West side) 20/11/52 Higher Cottage including outhouse adjoining to north-west (Formerly Listed as: TOTNES ROAD, Cockington Higher Cottage and adjoining Outhouse)
GV II
Former farmhouse. Probably C17, maybe earlier origins, various later alterations. Plastered cob and stone rubble; hall stack with red sandstone chimneyshaft, others red brick; thatched roof. PLAN: Main house has a 3-room and cross passage plan. South-east end inner room with projecting end stack (a later addition). Hall has projecting front lateral stack. Rear of passage now blocked by bathroom. Service end kitchen with projecting rear lateral stack and outbuilding at north-west end. EXTERIOR: Main house is 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front. Central window (over the front door) is probably C18 three-light casement with flat-faced mullions and old leaded glass in outer light. Rest are C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. Passage front doorway, to right of hall stack, contains C18 plank door with applied 6-panel front under C20 hood. C20 garage doors to outbuilding at right end. Roof is half-hipped to left and hipped to right. INTERIOR: Shows little sign of antiquity. Plain carpentry detail where exposed. Older features probably hidden. Higher Cottage forms part of an exceptionally attractive group of listed buildings in an unspoilt village and the adjoining Cockington Park.
Listing NGR: SX8941263765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390854
- 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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