Town Tenement
TOWN TENEMENT, 3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326613
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Town Tenement
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN TENEMENT, 3
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326613
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Town Tenement
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN TENEMENT, 3
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:
- TOWN TENEMENT, 3
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 57659 17066
Details
ROBOROUGH ROBOROUGH SS 5717 19/185 No 3, Town Tenement - GV II
Cottage and adjoining former outbuilding. Late C17 or early C18 cottage and probably C19 outbuilding, converted into domestic accommodation in the late C20. Rendered stone cottage with gable-ended wheatstraw thatched roof. Rendered end stack with red brick shaft. Rendered stone and cob outbuilding (formerly with weatherboarded front) with gable-ended Welsh-slate roof. Plan and development: Late C17 or early C18 one-room plan cottage, facing east (ground falls to left), with external end stack to right and entrance at front to left. Lower former outbuilding adjoining to left, converted to domestic accommodation in the late C20 when the front wall was rebuilt, the verandah was added and the attic rooms were inserted. One storey and attic. Exterior: Cottage has a ground-and first-floor C19 two-light wooden casement to right, with gable over attic window. Doorway to left with C20 half-glazed door, C19 beaded wooden frame and slate-roofed gabled porch with pierced barge boards. Former outbuilding on left has a large C20 raking dormer, 4 ground-floor C20 two-light wooden casements, central pair of C20 half-glazed doors and a C20 glazed lean-to verandah. Interior not inspected. The cottage faces onto a courtyard (probably a former farmyard), opposite Nos. 1 and 2, Town Tenement (q.q.v.)
Listing NGR: SS5765917066
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91801
- 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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