Anchoring Cottage
ANCHORING COTTAGE, OTTERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334039
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Anchoring Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ANCHORING COTTAGE, OTTERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334039
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Anchoring Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANCHORING COTTAGE, OTTERY ROAD
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:
- ANCHORING COTTAGE, OTTERY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 08433 85576
Details
OTTERTON OTTERY ROAD, Otterton SY 0885 7/198 Anchoring Cottage - GV II Cottage. C18, refurbished in late C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings, some stone rubble and brick patching; stone rubble or cob stacks topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. 2-room plan cottage facing south-south-west, say south. The left end is terraced into the hillside and the left room is larger than the right room. Staircase between the rooms seems to be blocking an original through passage. Each room has a gable-end stack. 2 storeys. Regular but not symmetrical 4-window front of late C19 and C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. Doorway right of centre contains a C20 plank door and the window above is blind. Roof is gable-ended. Some of the rear windows have C19 brick arches over. Interior is largely the result of late C19 modernisation. The left room has a C18 crossbeam with neat soffit chamfers. Both fireplaces are blocked by C19 chimneypieces. Most of the joinery detail is C19 but a couple of the doors are C18 and hung on H-hinges. Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SY0843385576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86399
- 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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