Forge Cottage
FORGE COTTAGE, A39
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206457
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGE, A39
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- Date:
- 2002-09-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/09137/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206457
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE COTTAGE, 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:
- FORGE COTTAGE, 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 71573 47675
Details
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH
SS74NW A39, Barbrook 858-1/2/50 (North side) 03/09/73 Forge Cottage (Formerly Listed as: LYNTON BARBROOK Forge Cottage)
GV II
Detached house. C17 origins, modified. Rendered rubble, asbestos-cement slate roof, stone stacks. Plain gabled range with cross passage and heated room each side; later stair returns over doorway to S. 2 storeys; 3-window range. 2-light casements at eaves level above a 3-light, a small blocked square light with chamfered surround, and a 3-light, all under a continuous stone rough drip course. To the right of the blocked light is a C20 door recessed in plain reveals. The rear has 2 half-dormers above a later brick lean-to running almost the full width of the property. There is a large external gable stack to the left (E), and a gable stack to the right. INTERIOR: not generally accessible, but a C19 or C20 timber dogleg stair is situated to the right of the main entrance.
Listing NGR: SS7157347675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376479
- 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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