Fern Cottage
FERN COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333939
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fern Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FERN COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333939
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fern Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FERN 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:
- FERN COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenn
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91968 85493
Details
KENN KENN SX 98 NW
2/297 Fern Cottage -
GV II
Cottage, originally part of a larger house. Mid C17 or earlier. Whitewashed and rendered, probably stone and cob ; thatched roof, half-hipped at right end, hipped to end of rear wing ; stack with brick shaft at junction between main block and rear wing. Plan: 1 room wide, 2 rooms deep, the principal room at the front with a smaller service room in a rear wing. C20 lean-to adjoins at right end, entrance into principal room through lean-to. Possibly the lower end or inner room of a 2 or 3 room plan house. Exterior: 2 storeys. 1 window front with 1 ground floor metal-framed C20 window. The rear elevation has a first floor 2-light C17 mullioned window with chamfered mullions and C18 or C19 small-pane casements. Interior: The principal room (to the front) has a chamfered axial beam (stops possibly concealed in wall plaster) and a red sandstone fireplace with a timber lintel and brick-lined bread oven. Roof: C20 roof trusses but 2 boxed-in curved timbers (truncated in the roof space) are probably a jointed cruck roof truss.
Listing NGR: SX9196885493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85850
- 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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