GOTHIC COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL

GOTHIC COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL, PARLIAMENT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297289
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:: GOTHIC COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address:: GOTHIC COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL, PARLIAMENT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297289
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Oct-1992
List Entry Name:: GOTHIC COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address 1:: GOTHIC COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL, PARLIAMENT STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GOTHIC COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL, PARLIAMENT STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Crediton
National Grid Reference:: SS 83354 00392

Details

SS826000 672-1/5/140 19/03/51

CREDITON PARLIAMENT STREET(North side)Gothic Cottage and attached wall(Formerly Listed as:PARLIAMENT(South side)No.6 Gothic House)

GII House,divided into flats.Probably 1820s,alterations of the C.1940s.Plastered;gabled slate roof;stack with rendered shaft.Gothic style.Exterior:three storeys.Asymmetrical two-window north elevation with regular fenestration.Gothic style wall to the left,enclosing the garden.The house has narrow vertical strip mouldings to left and right with recessed panels with arched heads.Cartway entrance to the right with a Tudor arch head and plank and coverstrip doors incorporating a wicket.Set of original timber Gothic windows:all with hoodmoulds with label stops;Gothic arched heads to the upper panes of the casements and trefoils in the spandrels.Ground floor window left and two first floor windows are two-light casements with six panes below the transoms;second floor windows similar but only four panes below the transoms.To the left,the tall garden wall breaks forward in the centre and is fully embattled with coped merlons and embrasures above a moulded cornice.The outer bays of the wall contain chamfered two-centred doorways with moulded spandrels and hoodmoulds with label stops.The right hand doorway is blind,the left hand has a ledged and braced door with a triangular head.In the centre bay a Tudor arched chamfered window-like opening with a C20 wrought iron grille.The east(garden)elevation contains the entrance. A single-storey flat-roofed projection the width of the front contains a central front door,half-glazed with nine panes above a recessed moulded panel,the upper panes with Tudor arched heads;overlight with geometric glazing bars. Boxed Gothic porch hood with a lobed edge and lozenge panels on each side.To the left of the porch a small lancet window,to the right a small-pane two-light casement with reeded panels below the sill.A cast iron balcony to the flat roof has anthemion decoration.Two first floor canted bay windows with tent roofs,glazed with high transomed windows with Tudor arched panes below the transom and geometric glazing bars and stained glass above.Central,narrow window in the same style,two-panes wide.The garden in front of the entrance elevation is completed by an embattled wall on the south side with an arched doorway and a Tudor arched opening.The south elevation is plain with iron-frame casements of the circa 1940s.Interior:Not available for inspection at time of survey but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SS8335400392

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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.