Day Cottage
DAY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326609
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Day Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DAY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326609
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Day Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAY 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:
- DAY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Roborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 58031 16636
Details
ROBOROUGH SS 51 NE 8/165 Day Cottage - GV II
Cottage, latterly divided. Late C17 with some late C19 and late C20 alterations and minor additions. Rendered cob on high stone rubble plinth. Rendered stone addition. Gable-ended slate roof (probably formerly thatched). Stone end stack to right with later brick top section and brick end stack to left. Plan and development: C17 two-room plan consisting of hall to right with external end stack and smaller unheated room to left. Central entrance. Former central staircase rising from the entrance was removed in the late C20, creating one large ground-floor room. Late C20 staircase to left. Blocked front doorway to right-hand room. C19 one-room plan addition to left with integral end stack. Left-hand C19 addition remodelled in the late C20 and late C20 addition at rear of left-hand end, replacing a C19 outshut. Two storeys with one-storey C20 addition. Exterior: Roughly symmetrical 2-window front; C19 two-light small-paned wooden casements with slate cills. Right-hand ground-floor window probably formerly a doorway (see straight joints below), possibly a later insertion. Central doorway has C20 plank door and beaded wooden frame. Projecting bread oven to right-hand end stack, probably an addition (see straight joints). Interior: C17 chamfered cross beam (to right of entrance) with unusual double- stepped curved stops. C17 large open fireplace with stone jambs, chamfered wooden lintel with unusual double-stepped curved stops, and bread oven with pointed-arched opening and C19 cast-iron door. First-floor rooms and roofspace not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5803116636
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91781
- 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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