Turnpike Cottage
Turnpike Cottage, Chawleigh, Chulmleigh, EX18 7EU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309418
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Turnpike Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Turnpike Cottage, Chawleigh, Chulmleigh, EX18 7EU
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309418
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Turnpike Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Turnpike Cottage, Chawleigh, Chulmleigh, EX18 7EU
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:
- Turnpike Cottage, Chawleigh, Chulmleigh, EX18 7EU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chawleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 69938 13117
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 September 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SS 61 SE
1/23
CHAWLEIGH
Turnpike Cottage
(Formerly listed as Little Shanty)
GV
II
Cottage, said once to have been a toll-house. C18 with late C19 extension. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stack topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. Originally a one-room plan cottage facing south-west with projecting right (south-east) end stack. Late C19 extension set back from right end. Two storeys with single storey extension. Main block has single ground floor C20 fixed pane window with glazing bars. Roof is half-hipped to left and gable-ended to right. Left end has late C19-early C20 casements with glazing bars at ground and first floor levels and right end has contemporary first floor casement and door behind C20 flat-roofed porch in angle of two ranges. Front of extension has C20 timber mullion and transom window containing panels of coloured Victorian leaded glass.
Interior of main block shows most original plain-finished carpentry detail. Roof
not inspected. Shown as Moortown Cottages on OS map.
Listing NGR: SS6993813117
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95494
- 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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