GROOM'S COTTAGE AT ASHCOMBE TOWER
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1308700
Date first listed: 02-Dec-1988
Statutory Address: GROOM'S COTTAGE AT ASHCOMBE TOWER
Map
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Location
Statutory Address: GROOM'S COTTAGE AT ASHCOMBE TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish: Ashcombe
National Grid Reference: SX 92741 77619
Details
SX 97 NW ASHCOMBE
8/3 Groom's Cottage at Ashcombe Tower
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GV II
Groom's Cottage at the entrance to the drive to Ashcombe Tower (q.v.). Designed by
Brian O'Rorke and contemporary with Ashcombe Tower, designed 1933-6. Stone rubble,
whitewashed and rendered with rusticated stone quoins, similar to those at Ashcombe
Tower ; thatched roof, half-hipped at ends ; central axial stack with rusticated
stone shaft. Free Vernacular Revival style, similar to the exterior of the house.
Plan: 2 rooms wide wih a central entrance and rear service rooms in an outshut.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a central front door with
rusticated jambs and a flat porch canopy on brackets. 2-light casement windows with
glazing bars, one on either side of the door and one first floor window above.
Interior: Not inspected.
The cottage is part of a stable yard which originally included garages and petrol
pumps. The yard buildings were all thatched, the Groom's Cottage is the only
surviving thatched building in the group.
"Ashcombe Tower, South Devon", Country Life, Feb 13 (1937).
Listing NGR: SX9274177619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 85665
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1937)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,
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