Symes Cottage With Attached Outbuildings to Rear
SYMES COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO REAR, TOWNEND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098302
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Symes Cottage With Attached Outbuildings to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- SYMES COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO REAR, TOWNEND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098302
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Symes Cottage With Attached Outbuildings to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYMES COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO REAR, TOWNEND
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:
- SYMES COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO REAR, TOWNEND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broad Clyst
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 98538 97252
Details
SX 99 NE BROADCLYST TOWNEND, Broadclyst 5/129 Symes Cottage with attached - outbuildings to rear
- II
House, formerly a farmhouse with attached rear barn and outbuildings. C17 and later. Rubble sandstone, rendered. Thatched roof, half-hipped to right, gabled- end to left, with external stone end stack at each end and internal lateral front stack with brick shaft. Possibly a three-room cross passage plan house now shorn of one chamber. 2 storeys. Front to road: scattered fenestration, 3 windows to ground floor, with 2 and 3- light C20 timber casements; two lst-storey windows to right hand side of house, one breaking the eaves line. 2 stone buttresses above cobbled pavement. C20 lean-to at the left-hand end of house. Internal evidence of a through passage with post and plaster screens to either side, the opposing doorways blocked. Only 2 ground-floor rooms remain, that to the right with end fireplace, massive timber lintel, chamfered and one beam, chamfered. Left-hand room, beam, chamfered with step stop. Roof of 4 bays : collar trusses of principals morticed and side-pegged at apex, and resting on wall plate; collars, side-pegged; trenched purlins. Barn extension behind house, similar roof construction, 3 trusses with double collars. Adjoining this, and aligned parallel to house another barn, now converted into a separate dwelling. All sandstone with some cob patching, and thatched throughout.
Listing NGR: SX9853897252
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88442
- 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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