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HER Number:MDV23926
Name:Old Thatched Inn, Ilfracombe

Summary

Thatched cottage including garden features, hillsborough road. Early c19 1 storey and attic. Thatched roof with semi-circular dormers. Eaves supported on rustic posts forming verandah. In garden is a stone pier which originally housed a pump, sides have recessed pointed panels. Also in garden is a small thatched shed with an early c19 round-headed leaded window. The cottage may have been a lodge to laston house. It has also been suggested that it may have been a toll-house (doe).

Location

Grid Reference:SS 527 473
Map Sheet:SS54NW
Admin AreaDevon
Civil ParishIlfracombe
DistrictNorth Devon
Ecclesiastical ParishILFRACOMBE

Protected Status

Other References/Statuses

  • Old DCC SMR Ref: SS54NW/74
  • Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

  • COTTAGE ORNEE (XIX - 1801 AD to 1850 AD (Between))
  • INN (XIX - 1801 AD to 1850 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV328526.

Thatched cottage including garden features, hillsborough road. Early c19 1 storey and attic. Thatched roof with semi-circular dormers. Eaves supported on rustic posts forming verandah. In garden is a stone pier which originally housed a pump, sides have recessed pointed panels. Also in garden is a small thatched shed with an early c19 round-headed leaded window. The cottage may have been a lodge to laston house. It has also been suggested that it may have been a toll-house (doe).


Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV67809.

Doe/hhr:ilfracombe/(17/6/1973)15.


Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

'Old Thatched Inn (PH)' marked.


Historic England, 2015, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV358087.

Olde Thatched Inn including pier and shed (Formerly Listed as: Hillsborough Road Thatched Cottage including garden features).
Detached cottage ornee, now a public house, out-building and well head. Early C19. L-shaped plan. Rendered with large thatched, hipped roof having lunette dormers, the low eaves supported on rough tree-trunks and forming a verandah. Part glazed timber C20 central entrance doors flanked by simple casement windows. Slated lean-to in angle at rear. INTERIOR altered. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to right a small thatched shed with an early C19 round-headed leaded window. In front of this, a stone pier, each side with recessed pointed panel, originally housing a pump. This Repton style cottage ornee may have been a lodge to Laston House, New Barnstaple Road, (qv). Laston House and the Olde Thatched Inn form a group.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV328526Migrated Record: Department of Environment.
SDV357601Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2015. MasterMap. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital. [Mapped feature: #84385 ]
SDV358087National Heritage List for England: Historic England. 2015. National Heritage List for England. Website.
SDV67809Migrated Record:

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded


Date Last Edited:May 6 2015 1:19PM