Heasley Cottage
HEASLEY COTTAGE, HEASLEY MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288694
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Heasley Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HEASLEY COTTAGE, HEASLEY MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288694
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Heasley Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEASLEY COTTAGE, HEASLEY MILL
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:
- HEASLEY COTTAGE, HEASLEY MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73734 32206
Details
NORTH MOLTON HEASLEY MILL SS 73 SW 10/157 Heasley Cottage - GV II House. Probably late C17 or early C18. Rendered cob on high stone rubble plinth. Gable-ended C20 asbestos-slate roof. Brick stacks, two with tops rebuilt. Plan and development: Three room plan, with entrance lobby and staircase between central and left-hand rooms. Central ground-floor room (hall) with integral lateral stack to rear, left-hand ground-floor room (possible former service room) with integral end stack, and kitchen to right (possible former inner room) with integral end stack. This is possibly a late C17 or C18 remodelling of a former 3-room and cross-passage house, with staircase inserted in passage. The house was incorporated in a formal composition with the neighbouring Heasley House Hotel (q.v.) in the early C19, also including Yen Cottage (q.v.). Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrically-fenestrated front with 4 windows to first floor and 3 to ground floor. Mostly C19 two-light small-paned wooden casements, except for 2 first-floor windows to right which are C18 two-light leaded wooden casements, one with metal opening light. C19 boarded door between first and second ground-floor windows from left and C20 rendered gabled porch with C20 2-leaf boarded door. Interior: Central ground-floor room (hall) with slate-flagged floor, open fireplace to rear with C19 surround, and C18 cupboard in right-hand rear corner with 2 shaped shelves and dentil cornice to moulded top. Right-hand ground-floor room (kitchen) with blocked fireplace. Left-hand ground-floor room has C18 square recess to left of C20 fireplace, with shelves, cupboard below with 2 doors and the remains of H-hinges, and moulded surround. Recess in front wall with moulded surround.
Listing NGR: SS7373432206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398974
- 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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