Atkins, Dolton
Description: Atkins
Grade: II
Date Listed: 10 March 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 90864
OS Grid Reference: SS5704912094
OS Grid Coordinates: 257049, 112094
Latitude/Longitude: 50.8906, -4.0338
Location: Fore Street, Dolton, Devon EX19 8QD
Locality: Dolton
Local Authority: Torridge
County: Devon
Country: England
Postcode: EX19 8QD
Incorrect location/postcode? Submit a correction!
Explore more of the area around Dolton, Devon at Explore Britain.
Listing Text
DOLTON FORE STREET (south side), Dolton
SS 5712
14/71 Haircut Cottage and Atkins
GV II
Pair of cottages. Circa late C17 or early C18 with later C18 addition. Rendered
cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof, slate to front wing. 3 brick stacks - one
axial and one at each gable end, rendered lateral stack to wing.
Plan: Haircut Cottage has 3-room plan but thick wall between central and left-hand
rooms suggest the latter may be an addition, probably later C18 wing at front of
right-hand room. Atkins Cottage has 2 room plan, right-hand room heated.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Haircut Cottage has asymmetrical 1-window front 3-windows on
ground floor. 2 late C20 2-light casements on ground floor with bow windows to
their left and earlier C20 single light above. Wing projecting to right has C20
plank door on inner face. Atkins Cottage has 1-window front of early C20 3-light
casement to right on each floor with C19 panelled door to left of centre.
Interior: of Atkins Cottage has blocked fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. To
include low C19 iron railings in front of Atkins Cottage.
Listing NGR: SS5704912094
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.