Huish Cottages
HUISH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325311
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Huish Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- HUISH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325311
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Huish Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- HUISH 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:
- HUISH COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 48524 29464
Details
WESTLEIGH SS 42 NE 3/92 Nos. 1 & 2 Huish Cottages GV II Lodge to Tapeley Park (q.v.) divided for 2 occupations. Circa 1850-60. Unrendered stone rubble with painted quoins. Patterned slate roof with crested ridge tiles, asbestos slate roof to rear. Carved bargeboards and moulded stone kneelers. 2 ridge stacks and stack to rear gable end of east wing. Symmetrical central entrance 2-room plan cottage acting as cross wing to another cottage at rear, which has a verandah across its front in the angle, and an outshut at the rear filling the space between a short rear wing and the cross-wing Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys. West front : symmetrical 2-window range. 2-light metal casements with polygonal leaded panes, ground floor windows with transoms, first floor windows in half dormers with ornate wavey pierced bargeboards. Deep chamfered painted stone window openings. Central doorway in similar opening but with depressed 2-centred arched head and with plank door and gabled open porch on brick piers and with pierced wavey bargeboards. On left-hand gable end a projecting stack with set offs. On right-hand gable end a first floor central oriel on moulded corbel supported on buttress with set-off flanked by single-light windows. The south front is asymmetrical, with 2 half dormers, the bargeboards partly removed from right-hand dormer, similar fenestration and doorway and a slate roof verandah, hipped at right end, abutting cross-wing on left and supported on 3 brick piers. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS4852429464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98818
- 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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