Knights Cottage
KNIGHTS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388364
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Knights Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KNIGHTS COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388364
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Knights Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNIGHTS 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:
- KNIGHTS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Worlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 76963 13461
Details
SS 71 SE EAST WORLINGTON WEST WORLINGTON
1619/8/10005 Knights Cottage
GV II
House. Circa early C18. Rendered stone rubble and cob. Corrugated asbestos hipped roof. Lateral stack at back with rebuilt brick shaft.
PLAN: 2-room plan, the larger right hand [NW] room with lateral fireplace at the back; the left hand [SE] unheated room has been subdivided and a new staircase installed. The right hand room might have been open to the roof originally. Built on sloping site, the higher end to the right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window NE front with 2-light casements with glazing bars; doorway on left with C20 glazed door. Various casment windows with glazing bars on SE end and at the rear; at centre of rear [SW] there is a C20 glazed door and to is right a small weatherboarded outshut.
INTERIOR: The NW room has a lateral stone fireplace at the back with an unchamfered timber lintel and a cloam oven with its cloam door, over which is a cast-iron door; the floor over the NW room is more recent. The SE room has been subdivided and a staircase installed at the front. Simple collar-truss roof structure, the collars lapped and pegged to the principals, which have mortice and tenoned apexes; no common-rafters, but horizontal battens span bays between the trusses, and the thatch was laid directly on top. The whole roof structure is lightly smoke-blackened. The thatch has been removed and a modern structure has been built over the old roof.
Listing NGR: SS7696513465
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476373
- 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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