King William Cottage
KING WILLIAM COTTAGE, YALBERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293055
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- King William Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KING WILLIAM COTTAGE, YALBERTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293055
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- King William Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING WILLIAM COTTAGE, YALBERTON 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:
- KING WILLIAM COTTAGE, YALBERTON 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 86596 59043
Details
PAIGNTON
SX85NE YALBERTON ROAD, Higher Yalberton 1947-1/3/179 (South side) 10/01/75 King William Cottage
GV II
House. Early C17 or earlier origin; c1690s high-quality remodelling; thoroughly repaired after dereliction in the 1980s. MATERIALS: Roughcast; roof gabled at ends, thatched to front of ridge, slated to rear; stacks with tall rebuilt stone rubble shafts. PLAN: 3-room and passage plan, with stairs rising to rear of passage, which is to right of centre, rear outshuts. Left-hand room heated from left end stack, centre room and right-hand room heated from rear lateral stacks, unusual arrangement of separate, diagonally-set stack to heat first floor room right. The arrangement of the rooms is unusual, with a dining-room/parlour at the left end, a parlour at the right end and apparently a hall or kitchen in the centre. The attic was evidently used for accommodation at one time, although the stair to the attic no longer exists. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front. Recessed 6-panel front door with lead drip ledge. All windows C20 timber 3-light casements with glazing bars except the right-hand pair which has C18 two-light 12-pane sashes. Right return has a C17 two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window at attic level. INTERIOR: Paved passage (left-hand partition moved late 1980s). The kitchen, in the centre, has a complete pitched stone floor; open fireplace with rough stone lintel and sandstone jambs. Good c1700 panelled door with horizontal panel to parlour, at left end. This has a plain fireplace with rounded corner and timber lintel. Decorative moulded plaster oval of c1700 on ceiling, central rose temporarily removed. Pretty timber display cupboard with panelled doors and shell back is also of the same date. Right-hand room has original shutters and a late C18 panelled door with a matching cupboard door on the end wall. Stair with stick balusters and a ramped pine handrail. First-floor ceiling removed in left-hand room. Roof: Remains of side-pegged jointed cruck roof, crucks intact to front of ridge, left-hand end re-roofed following a collapse.
Listing NGR: SX8659659043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383918
- 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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