Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098230
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wrens
- Statutory Address:
- WRENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098230
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wrens
- Statutory Address 1:
- WRENS
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:
- WRENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Luppitt
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 17943 05145
Details
LUPPITT BEACON ST 10 NE 6/71 Wrens - GV II House, probably 2 cottages originally. Late C18 - early C19, probably earlier origins, renovated and modernised more than once in the C20. Plastered local stone rubble; stone rubble stacks with plastered brick chimneyshafts; thatch roof. Plan: 4-room plan house built across the hillslope facing south-west. At the right (south-east) end is a parlour with a rear lateral stack. Next to it is the entrance hall with the stairs behind and a 2-storey porch in front. Left of centre is the former kitchen with an axial stack backing onto the unheated left end room. The house was probably built as a pair of 2-room plan cottages. The porch was added when the cottages were united. House is 2 storeys with an outshot on the left end which was brought into domestic use circa 1970. Exterior: nearly symmetrical 2:1:2 - window of various casement windows. Most are C20 and some have no glazing bars but 3 of the first floor windows are C19 (maybe original) casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The porch is gabled. The roof is half-hipped to right and hipped to left where it is carried own over the outshot. Interior: is largely the result of C19 and C20 modernisations. The ground floor beams are all C20 replacements, the right room (parlour) fireplace has been rebuilt using sections of old beams and the left (kitchen) fireplace is altered although it is apparent that it once had an oak-framed front. The roof was not inspected although the bases of straight principals were seen on the first floor. Wrens forms part of a group of attractive buildings which make up the hamlet of Beacon.
Listing NGR: ST1794305145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86624
- 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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