Alder Croft
ALDER CROFT, BISHOP'S COURT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333997
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Alder Croft
- Statutory Address:
- ALDER CROFT, BISHOP'S COURT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333997
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Alder Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALDER CROFT, BISHOP'S COURT LANE
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:
- ALDER CROFT, BISHOP'S COURT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sowton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 98391 92367
Details
SOWTON BISHOP'S COURT LANE SX 99 SE 1/37 Alder Croft -
- II
Cottage. C17 with C19 alterations. A mixture of cob, Heavitree stone and brick, all rendered; thatched roof, half-hipped to the right, and adjoining another later cottage to the left. Formerly a 2-room cottage, the right-hand room heated by a rear internal lateral stack (rebuilt in brick in the C19 but probably replacing a C17 stack); the left-hand room heated by an axial stack, originally an end stack. The building has been extended to the left, and there is a low C20 leanto at the rear. 2 storeys. Front: 3-window range; 2-light casement windows to first floor; planked door under tiled canopy flanked by 3-light C19 casement windows with depressed window arches. A third, and smaller, casement window to the extreme right. Right-hand elevations with tall Heavitree stone plinth, otherwise all brick, with two 2-light casement windows, and a tiled leanto. Rear with 2 small 2-light casement windows to first floor, lintels at eaves level; the rest obscured by leanto with C20 casements. Interior not inspected. Dr Alcock notes a chamfered ceiling beam with scroll stop, N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans. Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), p. 213-14. Formerly known as Fawns.
Listing NGR: SX9839192367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86172
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 94, (1962), 213-14
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 94, (1962)
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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