Torhill Cottage
TORHILL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306529
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Torhill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TORHILL COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306529
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Torhill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TORHILL 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:
- TORHILL COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drewsteignton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 70716 92580
Details
SX 79 SW DREWSTEIGNTON
5/66 Torhill Cottage
II
Cottage. Probably early C19, renovated and enlarged circa 1965. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; disused stone rubble stack; thatch roof. Plan: originally a 2-room plan cottage facing south. The larger right (east) room has a disused gable-end stack. 1-room plan extension of circa 1960 on left end. 2 storeys. Exterior: regular but not symmetrical 3-window front of circa 1965 casements without glazing bars. Ground floor left window is converted to a French window. Doorway has been moved from the centre to the left of the original cottage and contains a C20 door and contemporary shingle roofed porch. Another similar door and porch on the side of the extension. Main roof is has a steeply pitched half hip to left. Extension is flat-roofed. Interior: has plain carpentry detail where exposed. Torhill Cottage lies close by the main A30 which at this point is embanked and therefore the traffic passes close to the thatch roof.
Listing NGR: SX7071692580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94862
- 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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