The Sidmouth Arms Including Front Boundary Walls

THE SIDMOUTH ARMS INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098219
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
The Sidmouth Arms Including Front Boundary Walls
Statutory Address:
THE SIDMOUTH ARMS INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098219
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
The Sidmouth Arms Including Front Boundary Walls
Statutory Address 1:
THE SIDMOUTH ARMS INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS

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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:
THE SIDMOUTH ARMS INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Upottery
National Grid Reference:
ST 20213 07650

Details

UPOTTERY UPOTTERY ST 20 NW 7/144 The Sidmouth Arms including front - boundary walls GV II Public house. Circa 1870. Local stone and flint rubble with Membury stone ashlar detail; stone rubble stacks with ashlar chimneyshafts; slate roof. Plan: L-plan building. The main block faces west and it contains the main rooms. It has a 3-room plan, each has a gable-end stack. There is a central through- passage with the main stair off the rear end set in a rear outshot. A rear block projects at right angles to rear of the right (south) end. It was formerly the kitchen wing with a rear gable-end stack. The public house is 2 storeys. Exterior: symmetrical 4-window front of 2-light stone window with shoulder-headed lights. The shoulder heads of the left window bay have been removed. The windows have segmental relieving arches over and the outer first floor windows have gables over. The central front doorway contains the original part-glazed door behind an original gabled porch with cusped bargeboards pierced with trefoils and a shaped finial. There are ashlar quoins each end and a timber openwork valance under the eaves. The same pattern is used for the bargeboards on the left gable-end but the right gable-end has plain bargeboards. Interior: includes a great deal of original joinery detail and there is some original exposed carpentry in Cl7 style e.g. chamfered with scroll-stopped crossbeams and open brick fireplaces with timber lintels. The Sidmouth Arms is one of a good group of C19 buildings built at the expense of Lord Sidmouth which make up most of the village of Upottery.

Listing NGR: ST2021307650

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
86699
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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