Old Vestry

OLD VESTRY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097362
Date first listed:
03-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Old Vestry
Statutory Address:
OLD VESTRY
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097362
Date first listed:
03-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Old Vestry
Statutory Address 1:
OLD VESTRY

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
OLD VESTRY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Lustleigh
National Park:
Dartmoor
National Grid Reference:
SX 78482 81293

Details

LUSTLEIGH LUSTLEIGH SX 7881

9/187 Old Vestry -

GV II

Public hall, formerly a school. Stands in north-west corner of churchyard. Built in 1825. Granite rubble. Hipped tiled roof. Red brick chimney in south gable- wall. 2 storeys. 3 window wide. Ground storey openings have segmental arches. Doorway in centre has plank door and pantiled hood on wooden brackets. On the wall to the left of it is fixed a large iron lantern. Windows have wooden casements without glazing bars. Under the eaves is a stone tablet carved with the inscription "1825 Built by subscription and endowed with Lowton Meadow in Moreton, for supporting a school for ever, by the Rev. William Davy, curate of this parish upwards of forty years." West front has 2 old wood casement windows with leaded panes, the ground-storey window with fittings for outside shutters. Interior not inspected, except for left-hand ground storey room which has a chamfered upper-floor beam.

Listing NGR: SX7848381290

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Legacy System number:
84628
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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