Briar Cottage
BRIAR COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333866
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Briar Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BRIAR COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-07-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/04986/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333866
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Briar Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIAR 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:
- BRIAR COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX8568884707
Details
ASHTON HIGHER ASHTON
SX 88 SE
6/20 Briar Cottage
30.6.61
GV II
Cottage. Probably late C17/early C18, thatch removed since 1959. Whitewashed
rendered cob and stone rubble ; tiled roof, gabled at ends ; projecting right end
stack, probably C20 rear left corner stack.
Plan: A small early cottage, the main block consisting of a principal heated room to
the right and a narrow service room to the left, small outshut on front at right.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1 window front with a 2-light casement to the
left, a door to the right and the roof carried down over the outshut as a catslide to
the right, door and window on inner return of outshut. The left gable end of the
main block has a doorway into the service room flanked by small windows, one window
in gable.
Interior: 1 chamfered crossbeam to heated room.
Roof: Not inspected at time of survey but may be of interest.
An unusual example of a very small early cottage.
Group value with other buildings in the centre of an exceptionally unspoiled village.
Listing NGR: SX8568884707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85541
- 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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