White Cottage
WHITE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306837
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- White Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306837
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- White Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE 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:
- WHITE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Portlemouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 74624 38556
Details
EAST PORTLEMOUTH EAST PORTLEMOUTH VILLAGE SX 73 NW 8/28 White Cottage
II
House. Circa late C17 or early C18 with later C18 and early C20 rear additions. Plastered rubble and cob walls. Gable ended thatch roof. Rubble stack with brick shaft at each gable end. Plan: probably altered and formerly 2 cottages but now consisting of 3 rooms, the central room unheated. Unheated C18 wing behind right-hand end. Circa early C20 outshut adjoining it. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of C20 1, and 2-light casements. C20 leanto porch to left of centre and at right-hand end, both with part-glazed doors. Wing behind right-hand end with leanto on rear wall adjoining it. Interior: modernised in early C20 and does not exhibit early features although the original fireplaces may merely have been concealed.
Listing NGR: SX7462438556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100724
- 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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