Church Cottage, Middle Cottage and Lower Cottage
CHURCH COTTAGE, MIDDLE COTTAGE AND LOWER COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325474
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage, Middle Cottage and Lower Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, MIDDLE COTTAGE AND LOWER COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325474
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage, Middle Cottage and Lower Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, MIDDLE COTTAGE AND LOWER 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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, MIDDLE COTTAGE AND LOWER COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Worlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 76974 13471
Details
EAST WORLINGTON WEST WORLINGTON SS 71 SE 8/32 Church Cottage, Middle Cottage 20.2.67 and Lower Cottage GV II Row of 3 cottages, perhaps the rearrangement of church house. Late C16 or C17 with later alteration and extension. Rubble and cob, some render; straw-thatched gabled roofs. Plan: long range of 1:3:1 rooms, centre room built forward, through-passage way to churchyard between left and centre room; 2 end rooms with gable end brick stacks, left with oven, centre room with axial brick stack also with an oven. Exterior: 2 storeys, 2:2:2 windows, centre projects 2-light C19 casements with glazing bars. Door opening to each cottage, with a C20 door to Church Cottage to left in a lean-to outshut on front, Middle Cottage to centre with a thatched pent porch; Lower Cottage to right with slated pent porch. Middle Cottage with projecting C18 wrought-iron lamp bracket with scrolling and lamp holder. Through- passageway to right of Church Cottage leading to the churchyard of Church of St Mary (q.v.), semi-circular head, rubble surround, C18 ornamental iron gate with spear capping; pitched stone pavement; at rear end a 3-barred old wooden stile; over the passageway 2 chamfered and stepped-stopped beams, that to rear with later brackets on stone corbels. Rear elevation of cottages facing onto churchyard of Church of St Mary, 3 small C19 casements; lean-to-with slate roof. Interior: Middle Cottage with fireplace with a wooden bressumer; Lower Cottage with an exposed truss of a jointed cruck showing on the outside at first floor level; remainder of interiors not seen. It is thought that the building may once have been a church house, although there is no direct evidence for this. Roof: not fully seen.
Listing NGR: SS7697513475
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97437
- 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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