Poole Cottage

POOLE COTTAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1333051
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Poole Cottage
Statutory Address:
POOLE COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1333051
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Poole Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
POOLE 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
POOLE COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Dolton
National Grid Reference:
SS 56851 12575

Details

DOLTON SS 5612 13/53 Poole Cottage II House. Early to mid C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered rubble and cob walls. Thatch roof to left-hand part with hipped end, wooden shingle roof to right- hand part, gabled at end. Rendered brick axial stack, projecting rendered rubble stack at right gable end with brick shaft. Plan: 3-room-and-through passage plan, lower end to left has probably been rebuilt in C20 and inner room has had its eaves raised and its front wall built out, also probably extended at higher end. Hall stack backs onto passage and inner room heated by gable-end stack. C19 rear outshuts added. Exterior: 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 1:2:2 window front in 3 distinct parts. The left-hand part is recessed with a C20 2-light casement on each floor and a late C20 aluminium framed window to left on ground floor. C20 glazed door to right under slate pentice. The central section has 1 and 2-light C20 casements. The right-hand section also projects slightly with higher eaves and has mid C20 2 and 3-light metal frame casements and a glazed door to the left under a slate hood. Interior: inaccessible at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SS5685112575

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
90847
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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