Meetford Cottage
MEETFORD COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306109
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Meetford Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MEETFORD COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2006-05-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/14470/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306109
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Meetford Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEETFORD COTTAGE
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:
- MEETFORD COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton Hamlets
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81764 96564
Details
SX 89 NW CREDITON HAMLETS
7/83 Meetford Cottage
II
House, formerly gamekeeper's cottage. Probably C18th, enlarged in C19. Plastered cob on rubble footings including some C19 brickwork. Cob stack topped with C19 brick. Now a gable-ended 2-room lobby entrance house with central axial stack and rear outshut. Faces south-west. 2-storeys. Irregular 3-window front and eaves step down twice from left to right. Door left of centre with 1984 replacement, gabled porch. Windows are casements of various size, irregular disposition and different dates. The oldest is first floor right; a 3-light timber frame with slender flat-faced mullions and small rectangular leaded panes with vertical iron bars. Similar 2-light window in right end (south east) and a larger and possibly later example in south-east side of outshot. Interior has plain carpentry detail and in right room signs of demolished gun-room. House was originally a single room cottage (the right room) and was extended to left and outshut added in C19.
Listing NGR: SX8176496564
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95184
- 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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