Ash Cottage

ASH COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1333121
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Ash Cottage
Statutory Address:
ASH COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1333121
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Ash Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ASH 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
ASH COTTAGE

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

County:
Devon
District:
Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Petrockstow
National Grid Reference:
SS5180008179

Details

PETROCKSTOWE
SS 50 NW
8/39 Ash Cottage
-
- II
Cottage. Circa late C17 with C19 addition. Plastered cob walls. Half-hipped
thatch roof. Central brick axial stack.
Plan: 2-room plan with baffle entry in front of central axial stack serving both
rooms. C19 lean-to added at right-hand end. Original front doorway blocked in C20
and new entry made into right-hand room.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1-window front with single C19 3-light casement
on ground floor to right of centre. C20 gabled porch to its right with panelled and
glazed double doors. At centre is slight 2-storey projection with blocked original
doorway. Stone slate-roofed lean-to against right-hand end with 2-light casement on
front.
Interior: not fully accessible but appeared to have had original features concealed
by early C20 modernisation although they probably still survive underneath.


Listing NGR: SS5180008179

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
91013
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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