Rockey Cottage
Rockey Cottage, Northlew, Okehampton, EX20 3NR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326520
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rockey Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Rockey Cottage, Northlew, Okehampton, EX20 3NR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326520
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rockey Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rockey Cottage, Northlew, Okehampton, EX20 3NR
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:
- Rockey Cottage, Northlew, Okehampton, EX20 3NR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Northlew
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 50782 99132
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 September 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
SX 59 NW
9/245
NORTHLEW
Rockey Cottage
(Formerly listed as Rocky Cottage)
II
Cottage. Later C17 with C18 and C19 additions and C20 alterations. Plastered cob and rubble walls. Hipped thatch roof. Axial brick stack on stone base.
Plan: original part is at the centre - probably two room plan cottage with heated room to the right. In C18 outbuilding added at left hand and one room addition made at right-hand end which then had a C19 outshut added.
Exterior: two storeys. Asymmetrical four-window front of irregular heights. All C20 two-light casements apart from former outbuilding addition at left-hand end which has three fixed lights on first floor. Large thatch doorhood to left of centre over C20 glazed door. C20 thatched roof porch to right-hand addition with plank door behind. Garage door at front of right-hand lean-to.
Interior: somewhat altered in C20 but retains chamfered wooden lintel to fireplace. Probably C19 insubstantial straight principal rafters.
Listing NGR: SX5078299132
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93355
- 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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