Wolleigh Cottage
WOLLEIGH COTTAGE, ASHWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334076
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wolleigh Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WOLLEIGH COTTAGE, ASHWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334076
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wolleigh Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOLLEIGH COTTAGE, ASHWELL 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:
- WOLLEIGH COTTAGE, ASHWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovey Tracey
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80565 79891
Details
BOVEY TRACEY ASHWELL LANE SX 87 NW
5/38 Wolleigh Cottage -
GV II
House, formerly 2 cottages; probably a farmhouse originally. Late C16 or C17 with later additions on left and at rear. Rendered stone and cob. Thatched roof with rendered chimneystack in each gable; addition to left has low-pitched slated roof with clay ridge-tiles. 2-room and through-passage plan, with added stair turret behind right-hand room. 2 storeys, with single-storey addition at rear. 3-window front, all windows with C19 wood casements of 3 lights, except for a 2-light casement in centre of second storey; lights are of 3 panes each. In centre bay of ground storey is a pair of C20 glazed doors within a solid-walled porch having an asbestos slated pent roof. Addition to left, a converted outbuilding, has 2 windows grouped together at left-hand end of ground storey; both have single-light wood casements, the right-hand one with 6 panes, the left-hand one with 2 panes. To left of second storey a C20 wood casement of 2 lights, with 2 panes per light. In left-hand gable, fronting road, a small 4-pane wood casement window in ground storey; 2-light C20 wood casement with 2 panes per light in second storey. Interior: has rough floor-beams to upper storey, with little sign of a chamfer. Right-hand ground-storey room has wide gable-fireplace of late C16 or C17; jambs of large granite blocks, chamfered wood lintel with notched run-out stops. C18 or early C19 roof, the trusses having collars pegged to the faces of plain principal rafters; no purlins or common rafters, just thatching spars that appear to have been renewed in C20.
Listing NGR: SX8056579891
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84481
- 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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