Ivy Cottage
IVY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309341
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- IVY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309341
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- IVY 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:
- IVY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wembworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 66174 13327
Details
WEMBWORTHY BRIDGE REEVE SS 61 SE 1/70 Ivy Cottage - GV II
Cottage. Late C18-early C19, possibly earlier core, refurbished circa 1975. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stack topped with C20 brick; thatch roof. 1-room plan cottage built onto northern end of Trixes (q.v.). It is wider and taller and projects forward a little from Trixes. Stack in right (northern) gable end. 2 storeys. 1-window front of C19 casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass and there is another similar in left return. Right gable end has irregular 2-window front of C20 casements including a small reset C17 oak 2-light window with chamfered mullion on left end. The other ground floor window roughly in the centre is blocking the original doorway. Present door in rear wall. Interior: shows plain carpentry detail. Large rubble fireplace has plain oak lintel. Roof carried on purlins between gable end walls. Cottage may have once been a barn or part of a barn since the owners noticed the internal wall plaster continuous from ground to wall top. Ivy Cottage attractively complements adjoining Trixes (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SS6617213322
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95541
- 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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