Ye Old Cottage Including Gate Piers to South East
YE OLD COTTAGE INCLUDING GATE PIERS TO SOUTH EAST, A39
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201138
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Old Cottage Including Gate Piers to South East
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLD COTTAGE INCLUDING GATE PIERS TO SOUTH EAST, A39
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- Date:
- 2002-10-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/09137/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201138
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Old Cottage Including Gate Piers to South East
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLD COTTAGE INCLUDING GATE PIERS TO SOUTH EAST, A39
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:
- YE OLD COTTAGE INCLUDING GATE PIERS TO SOUTH EAST, A39
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lynton and Lynmouth
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 71591 47672
Details
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH
SS74NW A39, Barbrook 858-1/2/53 (North side) 03/09/73 Ye Old Cottage including gate piers to south-east (Formerly Listed as: LYNTON BARBROOK The Cottage)
GV II
Detached house with gate piers. C17, but C19 N front (towards stream) rebuilding. Rendered rubble, some painted, and some slatehanging, slate roof. Probably originally a 2-room cross-passage plan with end stacks, but now with symmetrical entrance front (N) and lateral stack to rear outshut. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 2-light small-pane casements, with a central plank door under a gabled porch. The right gable is slate-hung, with one 4-pane sash; the roof sweeps down to the road side above a curved corner, and there is a large slate-hung lateral stack to the rear wall, which also has a pointed quadrant window with radial bars. The left gable has at first floor a fixed casement with 4 vertical bars and lapped glazing, and a large 4-pane sash at ground floor. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 2 gate piers at entrance SE of cottage, tall rubble plinths surmounted by late medieval finials, probably reused from the former chapel (qv) at South Furzehill Farmhouse and similar to those at North Furzehill Farmhouse (qv).
Listing NGR: SS7159147672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376482
- 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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