Golsoncott Cottage and Detached Privy, One Metre South
GOLSONCOTT COTTAGE AND DETACHED PRIVY, ONE METRE SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295886
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Golsoncott Cottage and Detached Privy, One Metre South
- Statutory Address:
- GOLSONCOTT COTTAGE AND DETACHED PRIVY, ONE METRE SOUTH
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295886
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Golsoncott Cottage and Detached Privy, One Metre South
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOLSONCOTT COTTAGE AND DETACHED PRIVY, ONE METRE SOUTH
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:
- GOLSONCOTT COTTAGE AND DETACHED PRIVY, ONE METRE SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Cleeve
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 02690 39069
Details
ST03NW OLD CLEEVE CP GOLSONCOTT
4/74 Golsoncott Cottage and detached privy, one metre South -
- II
Cottage. C17-18, restored C20. Colour washed random rubble, half hipped thatched roof, large external lateral stack to right of entrance with slate roofed bread oven projection, moulded plinth around right bay returned. Plan: perhaps single cell originally, now 2 cell. One and a half storeys, lit gable ends only on upper floor, all C20 2-light wooden casements, one to right of external stack, left slate roofed, gabled, colourwashed brick porch, ribbed plank inner door, rear elevation fronting road unlit with lean-to slate roofed addition left with plank door in re-entrant angle. Detached single storey, one bay random rubble, slate roofed barge boarded outside privy with C20 window, plank door. A typical thatched Somerset cottage, unusual in that it still retains the C19 external privy.
Listing NGR: ST0269039069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264831
- 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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