Gothic Cottage and Attached Wall
GOTHIC COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALL, PARLIAMENT STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- 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
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2001-02-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/02022/04
- Rights:
- © Michael Woodhead. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387091
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 24-Jun-2026 at 16:19:13.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.