Lane End Leigh Cottage
LANE END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097804
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lane End Leigh Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LANE END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097804
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lane End Leigh Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANE END
- Statutory Address 2:
- LEIGH 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:
- LANE END
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Christow
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83674 85037
Details
CHRISTOW CHRISTOW SX 88 NW 2/93 Leigh Cottage and Lane End GV II
2 adjoining cottages, originally one house. Late medieval, altered in the C16/C17 (Laithwaite). Whitewashed rendered stone rubble and cob ; thatched roof to left (Lane End) hipped at left end, thatch replaced with tile to right which is gabled at the right end ; axial granite stack with rendered shaft, rear lateral stacks. Plan: No access to interior at time of survey (1987) but appears to be a 3 room and through passage arrangement,lower end to the right,hall stack backing on to passage: Lane End the higher end with a new doorway, Leigh Cottage preserving what is probably the original doorway to the old passage. An additional section at the upper end links Lane End to Carpenters (Laithwaite). Exterior: slightly set back from the main road; 2 storeys, asymmetrical 3 + 2 wndow front with a C20 glazed porch to right of centre (Leigh Cottage) probably leading into a cross passage. C20 front door with porch hood to Lane End. 3 ground floor C20 metal frame casements with enlarged embrasures, 5 first floor 2 and 3-light C20 timber casements with glazing bars. Garage at right angles to the left end of Lane End not included in listing. Interior: Not inspected at time of survey but known to have a plank and muntin screen with diagonal stops at the upper end of the hall, the room over the inner room jettied into the hall which has a hollow-moulded granite fireplace with bread oven and a plank and muntin gallery to the left of it, starting below ceiling level with step stops and mortises on the lower beam. At the rear of the hall there is a door with a cranked head, a window with plain mullions at the rear of the inner room is now covered by a later addition. The passage, in Leigh Cottage has chamfered stopped joists, the rear of the stack is exposed in the passage wih a cornice (Laithwaite). Roof timbers likely to be of interest. Group value with Carpenters and Vallens Cottage adjoining at the left. Laithwaite, M. Unpublished notes on Lane End.
Listing NGR: SX8367585035
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85612
- 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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