{"entry-date":"1988-02-09","start-date":"1988-02-09","end-date":"","entity":42148271,"name":"Torre Abbey Cottage","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"390880","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":344,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.542353 50.46471, -3.542446 50.464693, -3.542438 50.464676, -3.542453 50.464673, -3.542439 50.464643, -3.542476 50.464636, -3.542454 50.464586, -3.542435 50.464589, -3.542418 50.464551, -3.542435 50.464548, -3.542406 50.464483, -3.542326 50.464497, -3.542365 50.464582, -3.542291 50.464596, -3.542336 50.464694, -3.542344 50.464692, -3.542353 50.46471)))","point":"POINT (-3.542384 50.464606)","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Small detached house. c1900. Flemish bond brick, some timber-framing with rendered panels; slate roof, half-hipped at ends with some pierced ridge tiles; stacks with tall brick shafts with corbelled caps. South eastern Vernacular Revival style. PLAN: Irregular L-plan with a porch on the west side in the corner between 2 blocks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Deep eaves; brick plinth; first floor with 2 shallow jetties between brick cheeks with stone corbels. Asymmetrical one-window west front, projecting wing to the right. Open timber porch with gabled roof to the left, into the set-back block. Small-pane French window in end of wing with flanking glazed panels and segmental arched head. First-floor French window above in jettied section, onto timber balcony with boarded balustrade pierced with roundels. Other elevations in a similar style with segmental-headed ground-floor windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. HISTORY: Sited close to the entrance of Torre Abbey; one of a group of estate buildings, for the Cary family, long-time owners of the Abbey; formerly the butler's house. Listing NGR: SX9062863896","listed-building":"1206872"}