No. 9 (Kingsley Cottage) With Forecourt, Retaining Walls and Railings
NO. 9 (KINGSLEY COTTAGE) WITH FORECOURT, RETAINING WALLS AND RAILINGS, 9
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333115
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- No. 9 (Kingsley Cottage) With Forecourt, Retaining Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NO. 9 (KINGSLEY COTTAGE) WITH FORECOURT, RETAINING WALLS AND RAILINGS, 9
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333115
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- No. 9 (Kingsley Cottage) With Forecourt, Retaining Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO. 9 (KINGSLEY COTTAGE) WITH FORECOURT, RETAINING WALLS AND RAILINGS, 9
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:
- NO. 9 (KINGSLEY COTTAGE) WITH FORECOURT, RETAINING WALLS AND RAILINGS, 9
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clovelly
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 31678 24764
Details
CLOVELLY CLOVELLY SS 3124
11/21 No. 9 (Kingsley Cottage), 20.2.58 with forecourt, retaining walls and railings
GV II
House. Probably early C19. Rendered and whitewashed, slate roof with gabled ends and wide eaves, 2 brick stacks, one on ridge to left, and one rising from eaves to the right. Lean-to at rear, slate roof. Plan : central hall, 2 flanking rooms to left a kitchen, to right a parlour with staircase at rear. Scullery wing at right angles at rear of left. Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window front. Flush-mounted 16-pane sash windows which are coeval with exposed sash boxes and moulded surrounds. Central door opening, 6-panelled door with the top 2 panels glazed. Gabled hood on wooden brackets. Elevated cobble forecourt with a colourwashed rubble retaining wall, iron railings and gate. Interior: parlour to left of ground floor with a front corner fireplace backing onto the entrance hall, now blocked. Kitchen with a large gable end fireplace in a wood surround with a mantle, both original. Wing at rear is featureless. The staircase appears to be in its original position. On the first floor the room over the kitchen with a chimneypiece in a moulded original stone surround, later C19 grate. The cottage is named after the author Charles Kingsley (1819 - 75) whose father was rector at Clovelly from 1831 until 1836 when he went to become rector of Chelsea. Charles Kingsley published "Westward Ho!" in 1855 in which Clovelly figured.
Listing NGR: SS3168024764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91089
- 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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