Forge Cottage and Yew Tree Cottage
Forge Cottage and Yew Tree Cottage, Exeter Road, Beaford
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326571
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage and Yew Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Forge Cottage and Yew Tree Cottage, Exeter Road, Beaford
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326571
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage and Yew Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Forge Cottage and Yew Tree Cottage, Exeter Road, Beaford
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:
- Forge Cottage and Yew Tree Cottage, Exeter Road, Beaford
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55292 15052
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/11/2015
SS 5515
20/52
BEAFORD,
EXETER ROAD (south-west side),
Forge Cottage and Yew Tree Cottage
(Formerly listed as Nos. 1 and 2, Hooper's Cottage)
GV II
Pair of cottages. Late C17 or early C18. Rendered cob. Hipped wheatstraw thatched roof. Brick stacks. Plan and development: Left-hand cottage consists of principal room with end stack to left and smaller unheated room to right with entrance to front and winder staircase to rear. Partition between rooms since removed. Right-hand cottage has external end stack to right. Plan possibly a mirror image of the left-hand cottage. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical 3-window front; late C19 or early C20 two and 3-light wooden casements. Pair of roughly central recessed doorways with C20 boarded dado. Doors approached by steps. Very small C20 window between doors, possibly in earlier opening. Right-hand return front has projecting curved bread oven to right of stack, with lean-to roof. First-floor C20 two-light wooden casement to right and C20 boarded door below with wooden lintel. Interior: Left-hand cottage has C20 spine beam in left-hand part, and old stone open fireplace with wooden lintel and bread oven with cast-iron door. Blocked doorway to rear. Old winder stair in right-hand rear corner. Roofspace not inspected. Interior of right-hand cottage not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5529415046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91670
- 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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