Paradise Cottage
PARADISE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333764
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Paradise Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PARADISE COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333764
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Paradise Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARADISE 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.
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:
- PARADISE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Combe Raleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 15736 02231
Details
COMBE RALEIGH SY 10 SE
6/115 Paradise Cottage
II
Cottage. 1793 (documentation seen by the owner, Miss Doidge) with alterations of 1987 at the left end. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble; thatched roof, half- hipped at left end, hipped at the right end; axial stack with a C20 brick shaft. Plan: Single depth plan, 3 rooms wide, the entrance to left of centre facing a C20 stair. Before 1987 the left end was single-storey but there was evidence that it had originally been 2-storeys, as it is now, giving a heated living-room/kitchen in the centre, an unheated service room to the right, and what may have been a reed store at the left end with no internal access. The house was built by a thatcher, Mr Webber, (information from Miss Doidge). Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front with a shallow C20 porch to left of centre. C20 2-light timber casements, C20 front door. Interior: Particularly interesting because of the firm date for the cottage, the carpentry detail works at least 100 years earlier and is evidence of the survival of traditional carpentry techniques. The heated room has a chamfered crossbeam and an open fireplace with a bread oven, chamfered lintel with a mason's mitre, the left hand jamb is also chamfered and pegged into the lintel. Roof: Not seen at time of survey (1988) but has been inspected by Michael Laithwaite.
Listing NGR: ST1573602231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87116
- 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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