2 and 3, Chaplands Cottages
2 and 3, Chaplands Cottages, Beaford, EX19 8LJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308845
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 2 and 3, Chaplands Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- 2 and 3, Chaplands Cottages, Beaford, EX19 8LJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308845
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 2 and 3, Chaplands Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 and 3, Chaplands Cottages, Beaford, EX19 8LJ
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:
- 2 and 3, Chaplands Cottages, Beaford, EX19 8LJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55536 14837
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 March 2023 to update the address, amend the description and reformat the text to current standards
SS 5514
20/56
BEAFORD
Chaplands Cottages
Nos. 2 and 3
(Formerly listed as Nos. 2 and 3, Chapland's Cottages, EXETER ROAD)
GV
II
Cottage, later converted into two. Probably late C17 or early C18, with probably later C18 addition. Some minor C19 alterations and late C20 internal alterations. Rendered cob with thatched roof, hipped to right and half-hipped to left. Rendered outshut at rear with lean-to Welsh slate roof. Rendered lateral stack to rear of left-hand end with chamfered offset, gault brick axial stack off-centre to right, and red brick end stack to right.
Plan: three-room plan, sited at right angles to road (facing south-west). Probably formerly two room cottage to left consisting of larger principal room (hall) to left with external lateral stack to rear, and smaller room to right with end stack (perhaps initially unheated). Probable later C18 one room plan addition (probably separate cottage) to right with integral end stack and entrance to front. Continuous outshut at rear, probably a C19 addition. C20 internal alterations included removal of dividing wall between central and left-hand ground floor room. Two storeys with one-storey outshut.
Exterior: asymmetrical three window front; late C19 or early C20 two-light wooden casements. Doorways off-centre to left and between first and second windows from right, both with late C20 six-panelled doors. Left-hand end wall with first and ground floor late C19 or early C20 two-light wooden casements.
Interior: few early features visible in ground-floor rooms at time of survey (December 1987). First floor rooms and roofspace not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5553614837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91673
- 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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