PRIMROSE COTTAGE

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building

Grade:: II

List Entry Number:: 1305313

Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967

Statutory Address:: PRIMROSE COTTAGE, 20, WEST STREET

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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:: SS 80315 14485

Details

WITHERIDGE WEST STREET (north side) SS 81 SW Witheridge 9/110 No.20 (Primrose Cottage) 20.2.67 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 Cl7 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: SS8031514485

Legacy

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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.

End of official listing

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Date: 09 Jan 2003

Reference: IOE01/09281/20

Rights: Copyright IoE Mr Robin Downes. Source Historic England Archive

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