Ivy Cottage
IVY COTTAGE, 28, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306648
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- IVY COTTAGE, 28, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306648
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- IVY COTTAGE, 28, FORE 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:
- IVY COTTAGE, 28, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Silverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95605 02974
Details
SILVERTON FORE STREET (east side) SS 90 SE Silverton 7/245 - - No. 28 (Ivy Cottage) GV II Detached house. C15 or early C16 with later alterations. Roughcast cob, with some stone, stone footings. Half-hipped thatched roof. Formerly a 3-room, through- passage plan, with lower end to left of passage the higher end originally open to the roof, and a rear parlour wing forming an L-shaped plan overall. Front, lateral, external stack with paired set offs and brick shaft heats hall; rear stack (now internal) with brick shaft, heats parlour; lower end once heated by a now dismantled external end stack. 2-storeys. Front: 4-window range; 2-light C19 casement windows to first floor, 3-panes per light with margin panes; 3 similar windows to ground floor, with a C20 single-light window in addition. 3-light casement window to wing, with 10 leaded panes per light. Interior: Hall with 1 and 2 half beams, axial, chamfered, with ovolo-mouldings; fireplace with deep cavetto moulding to wooden lintel and stone jambs. Roughly chamfered axial beam to parlour. No ancient features visible to lower end, although it is possible that screens survive to either side of through-passage. Roof: 3 (probably jointed) crucks; apex morticed and pegged, diagonal ridge-piece; 1 cranked collar, the others straight and replaced; the hall and parlour roof smoke-blackened (the parlour less heavily so than the hall); lower end roof clean.
Listing NGR: SS9560502974
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95430
- 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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