Wakleys Cottage

WAKLEYS COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1333665
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Wakleys Cottage
Statutory Address:
WAKLEYS COTTAGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1333665
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Wakleys Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
WAKLEYS 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:
WAKLEYS COTTAGE

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Cotleigh
National Grid Reference:
ST 20788 04760

Details

COTLEIGH ST 20 SW 11/5 Wakleys Cottage - - II Cottage. Probably late C18 - early C19, modernised in the mid C20. White-washed local stone and flint rubble; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing north-west with central entrance lobby and staircase. Each room has an end stack but only the left one (to the larger room that end) is original; the other is a C20 insertion. 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular front fenestration, 2 ground floor windows and 1 first floor windows, all C20 casements with glazing bars. The front doorway is roughly central and it contains a C20 part-glazed door behind a contemporary gabled porch. The main roof is half-hipped to right and gable-ended to left. Interior: was not available for inspection at the time of this survey although some plain carpentry detail was seen in the ground floor rooms, including the fireplace of the left room, which is plastered stone rubble with a chamfered oak lintel and includes an oven.

Listing NGR: ST2078804760

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Legacy System number:
86560
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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