Wye Cottages
WYE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318155
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wye Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- WYE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318155
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wye Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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:
- WYE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lewtrenchard
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 45238 86307
Details
SX 48 NE LEW TRENCHARD
4/89 Nos 1 and 2 Wye Cottages - II
Pair of houses. Circa 1890, designed by Sabine Baring-Gould. Stone rubble with some slate-hanging to first floor, sprocketted slate roofs gabled to the front, brick stacks. 2 houses designed as 1 symmetrical unit and characteristic of Sabine Baring Gould's architectural style in the parish. 2 storeys and attic 1- + 2- + 1-window front with front left and right projections gabled to the front. A slate canopy between the projections forms the porch, front doors under rectangular fanlight reached by 2 flights of steps. 2 first floor windows in centre, each a 2-light casement, 4 panes per light. The front projections have tiers of ornamental slate-hanging carried out over moulded bressumers. 2 ground floor windows, each a 4-light casement 6 pane per light. 2 first floor canted oriels carried out on a single timber bracket. The oriels are 4-light casements, 6 panes per light. A 1-light attic window above each oriel. Interior not inspected. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was both parson and squire of Lew Trenchard from 1881 until his death. He financed and designed a number of new houses in the parish and considered the rebuilding of some of the old cottages a duty. He acted as his own architect and used local materials and local craftsmen. Wye cottages are very unaltered and the best of Baring-Gould's cottages in the parish.
Listing NGR: SX4523886307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92336
- 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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