Providence Cottage Providence Place
PROVIDENCE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326045
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Providence Cottage Providence Place
- Statutory Address:
- PROVIDENCE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326045
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Providence Cottage Providence Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROVIDENCE COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- PROVIDENCE PLACE
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:
- PROVIDENCE COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- PROVIDENCE PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Throwleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 67512 89287
Details
SX 68 NE THROWLEIGH PROVIDENCE
3/222 Providence Place and Combe Cottage
GV II
the address shall be amended to read:
THROWLEIGH PROVIDENCE Providence Place and Providence Cottage
and in lines 4, 7 and 15 of the description 'Combe Cottage' shall be replaced with 'Providence cottage'.
The list was previously amended in respect of this entry on 15 November 1990.
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SX 68 NE THROWLEIGH PROVIDENCE
3/222 Providence Place and Combe Cottage
GV II
House and cottage, now 3 dwellings. Built 1840 for Richard D Cay. Coursed granite blocks, mostly rendered; gabled tarred slate roof with stone coping to left; brick ridge and end stacks. Providence Place of L-plan with rear left wing (now 2 dwellings) and Combe Cottage to right of 2-room plan with central stair hall and outshut to right; continuous outshut to rear. Two storeys. Providence Place of 4-window range with stone cills to revealed 8/8-pane sashes and panelled door with panelled reveals to right of centre. Combe Cottage of 2-window range: mid C20 lean- to porch to front of half-glazed door; mid C20 three-light casements to ground floor and mid C19 two-light casement with HL hinges to first floor. Rear left wing of 3-window range to right side has late C19/C20 three-light casements except mid C19 three-light casement with leaded light to first floor; plaque reads PROVIDENCE PLACE/BUILT BY/RICHARD D CAY/1840. Interior not inspected but noted as retaining original features. Built for Richard Cay, principal benefactor to the Providence Place Methodist Chapel of 1839 (q v), as his own family home and as a worker's cottage (Combe Cottage).
Listing NGR: SX6751289287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94794
- 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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