Pilton Cottage
PILTON COTTAGE, DARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385125
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Pilton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PILTON COTTAGE, DARK LANE
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- Date:
- 2004-07-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/12628/26
- Rights:
- © Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385125
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Pilton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PILTON COTTAGE, DARK 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:
- PILTON COTTAGE, DARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55529 34173
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE DARK LANE, Pilton
684-1/2/335 (South West side)
31/12/73 Pilton Cottage
GV II
House. Late C18 with early C20 alterations and additions.
Roughcast; natural slate roof with glazed ridge tiles; 4 rear
lateral stacks with rendered shafts. Single-depth range,
backing onto Dark Lane with short projecting wings at each end
and lower-roofed service block to far right.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:6:1-window range. Front wings are
hipped to the front, the right hand wing carried out on 3
concrete columns. Gabled porch in centre of main range with
segmental-headed outer doorway and small-pane casements in the
returns. 6-panel inner door, the upper panels glazed. French
window with margin panes to left of centre; small-pane C20
door to right. 2-tier canted bay to left of porch. Windows
glazed with 16- and one 12-pane sash; very large tripartite
sash to left end wing.
INTERIOR not inspected but known to be original; joinery and
at least one Georgian chimneypiece.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Reed records that the earliest documentary
reference to the house is 1722 when it appears to have been
three separate houses. By 1764 the house was a single
dwelling, known as Incledon's Tenement (Reed, p160).
(Reed MA: Pilton, its Past and Present: Barnstaple: 1985-:
160).
Listing NGR: SS5552934173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485587
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reed, M A, Pilton, its Past and Present, (1985), 160
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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