Groom's Cottage at Ashcombe Tower
GROOM'S COTTAGE AT ASHCOMBE TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308700
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Groom's Cottage at Ashcombe Tower
- Statutory Address:
- GROOM'S COTTAGE AT ASHCOMBE TOWER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308700
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Groom's Cottage at Ashcombe Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROOM'S COTTAGE AT ASHCOMBE TOWER
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:
- 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 -
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.
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