The Rock Cottage
THE ROCK COTTAGE, CLIFTON PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333829
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROCK COTTAGE, CLIFTON PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333829
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROCK COTTAGE, CLIFTON PLACE
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:
- THE ROCK COTTAGE, CLIFTON PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sidmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 12219 87056
Details
CLIFTON PLACE 1. 1633 The Rock Cottage SY 1287 1/47 12.10.51. II GV 2. Detached stucco house, 2 storeys and attic. Early C19 "cottage ornee" style with thatched roof and projecting bracketed eaves. Semi-circular 3 -light dormers. Polygonal chimney pots with terracota ornament. 4 window elevation to sea with good ground floor verandah. Tudor heads to 2-light casements with drip moulds. The 3 centre bays of verandah break forward and it is partly returned to sides. Open work square section supports and leaded roof. The front to Peak Hill Road has a projecting central gabled bay. Later alterations have been made to this front which has leaded Tudor style fenestration. The house forms part of a group, between the cliff edge and Peak Hill Road at the west end of the Esplanade, that is one of Sidmouth's most characteristic features.
All the listed buildings in Clifton Place form a group.
Listing NGR: SY1221987056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87267
- 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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