Gardeners Cottage Adjoining Kitchen Garden Walls Approximately 210 Metres to North West of Glenthorne
GARDENERS COTTAGE ADJOINING KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS APPROXIMATELY 210 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF GLENTHORNE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213083
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gardeners Cottage Adjoining Kitchen Garden Walls Approximately 210 Metres to North West of Glenthorne
- Statutory Address:
- GARDENERS COTTAGE ADJOINING KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS APPROXIMATELY 210 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF GLENTHORNE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213083
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gardeners Cottage Adjoining Kitchen Garden Walls Approximately 210 Metres to North West of Glenthorne
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDENERS COTTAGE ADJOINING KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS APPROXIMATELY 210 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF GLENTHORNE
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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:
- GARDENERS COTTAGE ADJOINING KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS APPROXIMATELY 210 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF GLENTHORNE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brendon and Countisbury
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7961849739
Details
COUNTISBURY
SS 74 NE
4/23 Gardeners Cottage adjoining
- kitchen garden walls approximately
210 metres to north-west of
Glenthorne
GV II
Kitchen garden walls and adjoining cottage. Circa 1829, probably by the Revd. W S
Halliday, with some late C20 alterations to house. Uncoursed sand rubble kitchen
garden walls with some red brick dressings. House of uncoursed sand rubble with
some ashlar and gable-ended scantle-slate roof.
Plan: walls enclose a rectangular garden aligned approximately north-west/south-
east formerly with lean-to greenhouses on inside of north-east wall (see building
lines). Cottage attached to north-east wall at north corner; L-plan facing north-
east with lateral stone stack to rear of main range, and a porch in the angle of the
front wing. 2 storeys.
Walls: boarded doors in centre of north-east and buttress to north-east with brick
archway beneath and slate coping.
Cottage: symmetrical 2-window front with gabled wing projecting to right; first-
floor early C19 2-light wooden casements with octagonal pattern glazing bars and
flat stone-arched heads, left-hand window with small parapeted gable above. Ground-
floor canted bay to right of 1:3:1 lights with octagonal pattern glazing bars and
hipped slate roof. Inserted late C20 plate-glass ground-floor window to left.
Entrance in return of wing with porch in angle consisting of C19 boarded door with
stone lintel and coped stepped parpated gable above.
Interior of cottage not inspected.
This is the kitchen garden to Glenthorne (q.v), the house begun in 1829 for the
Revd. W. S. Halliday.
Listing NGR: SS7961849739
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397595
- 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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