Rose Cottage

ROSE COTTAGE, TOTNES ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1291629
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
Rose Cottage
Statutory Address:
ROSE COTTAGE, TOTNES ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1291629
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
Rose Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ROSE COTTAGE, 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ROSE COTTAGE, 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 89478 63831

Details

TORQUAY

SX8963 TOTNES ROAD, Cockington 885-1/16/389 (South West side) 20/11/52 Rose Cottage

GV II

Formerly known as: Rose Cottage COCKINGTON LANE Cockington. House with shop. C18 or early C19, possibly earlier origins. Plastered cob and stone rubble; brick chimneyshafts; thatched roof. PLAN: The ground floor has been cleared of internal partitions for the shop. However, opposing front and rear doorways suggests a passage between 2 rooms. Larger left room with projecting rear lateral stack and another rear stack to right room. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with lean to outshut on south-west end. Regular 3-window front of C19 and C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. Front doorway right of centre contains a 6-panel door behind a gabled thatched porch on rustic posts. Roof hipped both ends and to right carried down over outshut. Rear includes a 16-pane sash. INTERIOR: Ground floor gutted in mid C20 and has no exposed earlier features. Rose Cottage forms part of an exceptionally attractive group of listed buildings in an unspoilt village and the adjoining Cockington Park.

Listing NGR: SX8947863831

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
390856
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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