Garden Square Cottage
GARDEN SQUARE COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317976
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Square Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN SQUARE COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317976
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Square Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN SQUARE COTTAGE, FORE STREET
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:
- GARDEN SQUARE COTTAGE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Winkleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 63251 08145
Details
WINKLEIGH FORE STREET (east side), SS 6308 Winkleigh 11/176 Garden Square Cottage GV II Cottage. Circa mid C17 with C19 addition and altered in C20. Plastered cob and rubble walls. Gable-ended slate roof. Brick stack at right gable end. Plan: 2-room plan, turned into 1 room in C20 with fireplace in the right end wall; it is possible that the house constitutes the hall and inner room of a larger house of which the passage and lower room at the right-hand end have been demolished. C19 rear outshut added. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front. Probably C19 2-light casements on 1st floor to centre and left and on ground floor to the left, C20 2-light casements to the right on each floor. Gabled C20 porch to right of centre with part-glazed door behind. C20 hardboard to left to passageway leading to rear of the house. Interior: original fireplace survives with chamfered and ogee-stopped wooden lintel. Ceiling beams and roof timbers replaced in C19 or early C20.
Listing NGR: SS6325108145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90967
- 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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