Bow Cottage
BOW COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309269
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOW COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309269
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOW 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:
- BOW COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blackawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80748 49378
Details
BLACKAWTON BOW SX84NW Bow Cottage 5/31 II
Small house. Probably late C17 or early C18. Limewashed stone rubble. Steeply pitched gable-ended roof clad in asbestos. Large stone rubble gable end stack at left-hand end. Plan: 2 room plan with a central entrance. The rooms appear to be about the same size, the left-hand room heated from a large gable end stack, the right-hand room was probably unheated. In the C20 a small single storey extension was added at the left-hand end. The ground is higher at the right-hand end and at the back onto the road. Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 2-window south front. Small C19 2-light casements with small panes, the ground floor windows have slate hoodmoulds. Central doorway with a late C19 or C20 plank door and canopy clad in corrugated iron. At the front the plinth is chamfered. The rear elevation facing the road has no windows in the original part of the house. Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX8074849378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99820
- 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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