Middle Blagdon Cottage and Attached Barn to West

MIDDLE BLAGDON COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN TO WEST, BLAGDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298311
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Middle Blagdon Cottage and Attached Barn to West
Statutory Address:
MIDDLE BLAGDON COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN TO WEST, BLAGDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298311
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
25-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:
Middle Blagdon Cottage and Attached Barn to West
Statutory Address 1:
MIDDLE BLAGDON COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN TO WEST, BLAGDON ROAD

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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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MIDDLE BLAGDON COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN TO WEST, BLAGDON 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:
SX8573960928

Details

SX86SE
1947-1/2/158
10/01/75

PAIGNTON

BLAGDON ROAD, Blagdon
(North East side)
Middle Blagdon Cottage and attached barn to west
(Formerly Listed as:
BLAGDON ROAD, Blagdon
Nos.1 AND 2 Middle Blagdon Cottages (terrace))

GV
II

House, probably for agricultural labourer, including
outbuilding adjoining at W end. Early C19.
MATERIALS: Local slatestone rubble with some brick dressings;
natural slate roof laid in diminishing courses; stacks with
rendered shafts. Outbuilding with corrugated-asbestos roof.
PLAN: L-plan house, the main block south-facing, 2-rooms-wide
with a cross passage entrance, the rooms heated from end
stacks; rear left wing at right-angles. The house was divided
into 2 cottages at one time with a 2nd front door added.
Outbuilding adjoining at W end may have been a stable.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Roof gabled at left end, hipped at right
end and at end of wing: deep eaves. Right end stack projects.
Asymmetrical 3-window front with plank front door to the
passage with a porch hood on brackets. Secondary door
alongside to the left. 2 ground and 3 first-floor casement
windows with segmental-arched brick voussoirs: similar
voussoirs to all other windows. Casements are an unusual
survival: cast-iron with small panes: 3-light to the ground
floor, 2-light to the first.
The elevation overlooking the road has a blocked door to the
right of the main block and one ground and 2 first-floor
windows - all cast-iron casements except the ground floor
window which has been reglazed with C20 leaded panes. End of
wing blind. The right return of the wing also has 2 cast-iron
small-pane casements: one window on end of main block reglazed
with a casement with C20 leaded panes.
The outbuilding, a former barn, has a small doorway on the
south side, window alongside and a loft loading door above.
INTERIOR: Main block fireplaces have red sandstone jambs and
lintels. Pretty pink and grey local limestone flags to part of
the ground floor.

Listing NGR: SX8573960928

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
383758
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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