Venn Cottage
VENN COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325640
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Venn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- VENN COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325640
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Venn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- VENN 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:
- VENN COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bickleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 94325 05799
Details
SS 90 NW BICKLEIGH 5/10 Venn Cottage - II Cottage. Probably C18/early C19. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone; thatched roof with plain ridge, gabled at left end, hipped at right end; projecting left end stack, rear right stack. No access to interior at time of survey but a ground plan of 1961 by A. W. Everett (D.R.O.) shows a single depth arrangement, 2 rooms wide with a larger heated room to the left (presumably the living room/kitchen) and a smaller room to the right (presumably for services). The rear right stack serves an angle fireplace in the rear right corner of the service room, this may be a post C18 addition. 2 doors on the front suggest that the building may have been subdivided into 2 small cottages at one time. The Everett plan shows the stair in a rectangular rear left projection, rising from the larger room. C20 rear right lean-to with a corrugated iron roof. 2 storeys. Approximately symmetrical 2 window front; the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the 2 first floor windows. 2 adjacent plank doors in the centre; fenestration of 2 light casements, 6-panes per light except for ground floor right which is a C20 metal window. Venn Cottage is adjacent to the A396, gable end to the road and sited below the level of the road. Features of interest may survive internally and an interior inspection might necessitate a revision of the dating of the building. Ground plan of Venn Cottage, drawn by A. W. Everett (1961). D.R.0.
Listing NGR: SS9432505799
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96629
- 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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