Blacksmith's Cottage
BLACKSMITH'S COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309633
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Blacksmith's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKSMITH'S COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309633
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Blacksmith's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACKSMITH'S 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:
- BLACKSMITH'S COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashreigney
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 62893 13672
Details
ASHREIGNEY COTTWOOD SS 61 SW 6/34 Blacksmith's Cottage GV II Cottage. Late C16 possibly with earlier origins, with C20 addition. Rendered cob walls. Gable ended slate roof. Brick axial stack. Plan: original plan not entirely clear - probably either 2 or 3 rooms but may have been truncated at left-hand end. Large heated room at the centre with axial stack at its left end and unheated room beyond it. At the right end of the large room is a very narrow room which was formerly heated by a gable end stack but it may be that both the stack and partition with the large room are subsequent insertions. C20 addition at left-hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front of early C20 2-light casements, single light to left on ground floor. Gabled C20 porch to right of centre with part-glazed door. C20 flat roofed addition at left-hand end. Interior: main room has open fireplace with narrow chamfered wooden lintel and straight-cut stops. Over partition to small room is chamfered cross beam with pyramid stops. One of the roof timbers has a slightly curved foot and another is jointed at the front into a post going down into the wall. No access to roof-space.
Listing NGR: SS6289313672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90818
- 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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