THE SEVEN STONES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097552
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: THE SEVEN STONES
Statutory Address:: THE SEVEN STONES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097552
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: THE SEVEN STONES
Statutory Address 1:: THE SEVEN STONES

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: THE SEVEN STONES

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Bicton
National Grid Reference:: SY 07363 85752

Details

BICTON BICTON PARK SY 08 NE 3/13 The Seven Stones - GV II Stone circle with outliers. Originally Bronze Age but moved here and erected as a garden feature probably in the first half of the C19. Red-brown coloured conglomerate sandstone. 8 irregularly-shaped upright stones make up a rough circle and there is another off centre inside the circle and another outside close by on the west side. A short distance to the south are 2 more recumbent stones. Although there are now 12 stones it is thought that these made up the Bronze Age Seven Stones Circle which once stood on nearby Mutters Moor between the Otter Valley and Sidmouth. According to O.S. maps the exact location is SY 107 878. Several of the stones appear to have been broken which accounts for the discrepancy in numbers. The stones now form the centre of what is known as The Japanese Garden, the furniture of which is not included in the listing. Source. Devon S.M.R.

Listing NGR: SY0736385752

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Legacy System number:: 86214
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.