Mote House
MOTE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097321
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mote House
- Statutory Address:
- MOTE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097321
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mote House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOTE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- MOTE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbotskerswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 85777 68689
Details
SX 86 NE ABBOTSKERSWELL MAIN STREET Abbotskerswell 3/26 Mote House - GV II House, originally farmhouse. Probably C16 with C17 alterations, extended probably in C19 and considerably modernised in C20. Rendered rubble walls. Hipped asbestos slate roof. Large projecting rendered rubble lateral stack at the front and similar stack at rear. Originally 3 room and through-passage plan with hall and lower room (to the right) heated by rear and front lateral stacks respectively. 1 room extension at lower end probably C19. Re-fenestrated, passage removed, stairs inserted and doors blocked, and room arrangements altered in c. mid C20. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front of c. mid C20 2-light casements which have 2 top opening lights. Former enclosed gabled porch towards left end now has window on the front. Projecting stack to right of centre beyond which is C20 glazed door under gabled porch hood. To the right of that is the extension which is recessed. Interior: The lower room fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel with hollow step stops and an oven in the right-hand side. To the left of the fireplace above the present door is a chamfered wooden lintel also with hollow step stops, this would originally have been for a window. A photograph of this house at the turn of the century shows it thatched with old leaded casement windows and the original round-headed wooden doorframe to the left of the front lateral stack.
Listing NGR: SX8577768689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84730
- 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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