Ivy Cottage and Laurel Cottage
IVY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342117
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage and Laurel Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- IVY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342117
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage and Laurel Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- IVY COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LAUREL 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:
- IVY COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- LAUREL COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Washford Pyne
- National Grid Reference:
- SS8013209968
Details
SS 80 NW
6/280
WASHFORD PYNE
LOWER BLACK DOG
Ivy Cottage and Laurel Cottage
GV
II
2 cottages. Probably mid C19. Plastered cob and rubble; rubble stacks topped
with C19 and C20 brick; thatched roof. Pair of semi-detached cottages facing
south, away from the road, with Ivy Cottage on left (west) and Laurel Cottage on
right (east). Both are 2-room plan cottages with probably contemporary rear
outshots. Ivy Cottage has rear diagonal stack to left room and axial stack in party
wall serving right room. Laurel Cottage has axial stack. End room of Laurel
Cottage is offset slightly forward suggesting that it is an addition. Both 2
storeys. Ivy Cottage has balanced 3-window front of late C19 and C20 copy casements
with glazing bars and roughly central doorway with C20 gabled and slate-roofed porch
on plain posts. Roof hipped on left end. Laurel Cottage has irregular 3-window
front of C20 casements. Late C19 4-panel door left of centre with monopitch thatch-
roofed porch and small C20 extension with corrugated asbestos roof at left end.
Roof hipped to right.
Interiors have plain carpentry detail where exposed although left end room Ivy
Cottage) has C17 chamfered and scroll-stopped beam (presumably reused). Ivy Cottage
has C19 King post roof.
Listing NGR: SS8013209968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458777
- 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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