Granite Trough About 8 Metres East of Vicarage Gatehouse
GRANITE TROUGH ABOUT 8 METRES EAST OF VICARAGE GATEHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097384
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Granite Trough About 8 Metres East of Vicarage Gatehouse
- Statutory Address:
- GRANITE TROUGH ABOUT 8 METRES EAST OF VICARAGE GATEHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2001-08-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/03396/22
- Rights:
- © Mrs Jean M. King. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097384
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Granite Trough About 8 Metres East of Vicarage Gatehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRANITE TROUGH ABOUT 8 METRES EAST OF VICARAGE GATEHOUSE
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:
- GRANITE TROUGH ABOUT 8 METRES EAST OF VICARAGE GATEHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hennock
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83067 80861
Details
HENNOCK HENNOCK SX 8380 10/133 Granite trough about 8 metres - east of Vicarage Gatehouse
GV II
Octagonal granite trough, believed to be the socket-stone of the medieval village cross. The trough now has a shallow circular hollow on top with an outlet hole in centre and another in front. It is supplied with water from a cast-iron pipe in the Vicarage garden wall. In front of it is a granite cobbled pavement with a kerb of large, roughly-shaped granite blocks. Sources: R M Fulford in Transactions of Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society, XIII, 1908, pp.150-1. E Masson Phillips in Transactions of Devonshire Association, 1943, p.262.
Listing NGR: SX8306680861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84579
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society in Transactions of Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society, Vol. 13, (1908), 150-151
Transactions of Devonshire Association in Transactions of Devonshire Association, (1943), 262
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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