Barn and Linhay Immediately to North East of Former Longhouse at Canna
BARN AND LINHAY IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH EAST OF FORMER LONGHOUSE AT CANNA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097245
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Linhay Immediately to North East of Former Longhouse at Canna
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND LINHAY IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH EAST OF FORMER LONGHOUSE AT CANNA
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097245
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Linhay Immediately to North East of Former Longhouse at Canna
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND LINHAY IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH EAST OF FORMER LONGHOUSE AT CANNA
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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:
- BARN AND LINHAY IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH EAST OF FORMER LONGHOUSE AT CANNA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Manaton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 73272 81388
Details
MANATON SX 78 SW 4/5 Barn and linhay immediately to - north-east of former longhouse at Canna GV II
Barn with horse-engine house attached. Probably late C18/early C19 possibly incorporating some earlier fabric. C19 linhay attached at right angles and adjoining former house. Granite rubble walls with dressed stone surrounds to doorways. Slate roofs with gable ends, gable end to horse-engine house at rear has granite coping stones with moulded kneeler. Barn has central threshing floor with tall double doorway at front and smaller one to rear. Engine house at rear operated a threshing machine. 1 room extension to barn at right end. Linhay added at front. Barn single storey with loft at right hand end. Front wall has tall double doorway to right of centre with wooden lintel and dressed stone jambs. Doorway towards left end with granite lintel and first floor opening between the two. Doorway into addition to right with wooden lintel. At left gable end is a tall double doorway. To rear wall is a small doorway left of centre opposing that at the front and a wider doorway to the right. The engine house is square and projects on this side at the right hand end. On the inner face is a tall wide opening with timber lintel. The gable end is partly built into the ground and has 2 openings, one above the other, with plain granite frames. The gable end of the barn extension has a narrow ventilation light on the ground floor and an owl hole on the first floor. The linhay has granite uprights to its front face now partially infilled with openings to the right and left hand ends. The first floor has a corrugated iron front to the hay tallet with a loading doorway. Interior: the main barn has a C20 King post and collar beam roof. The horse engine house has a C19 scissor brace roof. On the ground floor a very substantial chamfered beam runs lengthways.
Listing NGR: SX7327281388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84940
- 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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