Primrose Cottage
PRIMROSE COTTAGE, 20, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305313
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Primrose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PRIMROSE COTTAGE, 20, WEST STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305313
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Primrose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIMROSE COTTAGE, 20, WEST 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:
- PRIMROSE COTTAGE, 20, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witheridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SS8031114481
Details
SS 81 SW
9/110
20.2.67
WITHERIDGE
WEST STREET (north side)
Witheridge
No.20 (Primrose Cottage)
GV
II
House. C16, floored C17, much remodelled early C19. Gabled ends to thatched roof,
roughcast and colourwashed, probably rubble and cob walls.
Plan and development: the hall and inner room of a 3 unit and through-passage plan
house. The lower end to left now a separate dwelling No.22 (Lantern Cottage). Hall
with a rear lateral stack, the inner room unheated. Originally the house was open
to the roof, the floors appear to have been added C17. Early C19 wing at the rear.
Exterior: 2 storeys, 2 windows, 12-pane sash windows, exposed sash boxes, wooden
cills. Door opening to left of ground floor, wooden doorcase with pilasters,
entablature and cornice, panelled door.
Interior: the hall with a chamfered axial ceiling beam with ogee stop. Fireplace
to hall with a plain sooden bressumer. Throughout the house C17 joinery including
doors and window shutters.
Roof: jointed cruck truss over the hall, smoke-blackened, also lightly-sooted
thatch, rafters and battens. Some of roof renewed C18.
Listing NGR: SS8031114481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97520
- 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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