Coachman's House and Clock Tower Approximately 20 Metres East of Hudscott House
COACHMAN'S HOUSE AND CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF HUDSCOTT HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1079499
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Coachman's House and Clock Tower Approximately 20 Metres East of Hudscott House
- Statutory Address:
- COACHMAN'S HOUSE AND CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF HUDSCOTT HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1079499
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coachman's House and Clock Tower Approximately 20 Metres East of Hudscott House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COACHMAN'S HOUSE AND CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF HUDSCOTT HOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- COACHMAN'S HOUSE AND CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF HUDSCOTT HOUSE
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:
- COACHMAN'S HOUSE AND CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF HUDSCOTT HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- COACHMAN'S HOUSE AND CLOCK TOWER APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF HUDSCOTT HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chittlehampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 65008 24784
Details
CHITTLEHAMPTON SS 62 SE
4/103 Coachman's House and Clock Tower 20.2.67 approximately 20 metres east of 14.7.87 Hudscott House GV II*
Coachmans House. 1711. Brick, Flemish bond facade and stone rubble to rear. Gabled slate roof with brick ridge stack and bell-cote to front gable end. Plan : Small rectangular plan with 2 rooms on each floor with central stack heating left-hand room and staircase to front of stack. Entrance at rear to left-hand room. 2 storeys. 3 bays. Symmetrical. Original fenestration with two 24-paned hornless sashes with thick glazing bars on each floor flanking blind window above round- headed niche. Clockface set diamond-wise in gable with the date 1711. Bellcote above is open-sided with timber uprights supporting ogee lead roof. The clock mechanism, made by Lewis Pridham, is also dated 1711 and in perfect working order. The Coachmans House faces Hudscott House and is an early and very unspoilt example of its type. It forms a group with the stable block and integral gatepiers and flanking walls (q.v.) all of which are brick fronted but of stone rubble construction at the rear.
Listing NGR: SS6500824784
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 443244
- 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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