Chantry Cottage
CHANTRY COTTAGE, THE DRANG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296184
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHANTRY COTTAGE, THE DRANG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296184
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANTRY COTTAGE, THE DRANG
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:
- CHANTRY COTTAGE, THE DRANG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Porlock
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS8865746682
Details
SS8846 PORLOCK CP THE DRANG (East side)
Chantry Cottage
24/51 (formerly listed as 2 separate
items Nos 1 and 2 High Street)
22.5.69
GV II
Chantry priest's dwelling, now cottage. Late C15, subsequently much altered. Rendered over rubble, double Roman tiled
roof, stone stack right gable end, inserted rendered first floor external stack left gable end. Plan: 2 cell and cross
passage with additions at rear. Two storeys, 2 bays; leaded C20 2-light casements, central chamfered 4-centred arch
door frame, somewhat eroded with C20 stable-type door. Left return first floor stone lancet presumably to stair,
cinquefoil headed single light window left, pantiled crosswing addition with outshot visible on right return. Interior
not seen. This is believed to have been the dwelling of the priests attached to the Harington Chantry in St Dubricius
Church (qv) Porlock, which was licenced in 1474. (Photograph in NMR).
SS8846 PORLOCK CP HIGH STREET (South side)
24/51 Nos 1 and 2
(Chantry Cottage)
22.5.69
GV II
For Chantry Cottage, see The Drang (East side), Porlock.
Listing NGR: SS8865746682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265464
- 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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