LAND COTTAGE AND LANCET BARN APPROXIMATELY 23 METRES NORTH NORTH-EAST OF LAND FARM HOUSE

Land Cottage and Lancet Barn, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7UE

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Former, mid- to late-C19, stables, converted to residential use in the late C20. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1098453
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: LAND COTTAGE AND LANCET BARN APPROXIMATELY 23 METRES NORTH NORTH-EAST OF LAND FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: Land Cottage and Lancet Barn, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7UE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1098453
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Oct-2013
List Entry Name:: LAND COTTAGE AND LANCET BARN APPROXIMATELY 23 METRES NORTH NORTH-EAST OF LAND FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: Land Cottage and Lancet Barn, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7UE

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:: Land Cottage and Lancet Barn, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7UE

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Membury
National Grid Reference:: ST2610005192

Summary

Former, mid- to late-C19, stables, converted to residential use in the late C20.

Reasons for Designation

Land Cottage and Lancet Barn, a mid- to late-C19 former stables, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Legibility: despite conversion, the original function of the building: a stables, remains legible;

* Group value: forms a coherent group with the C16 Land Farm House to the south and the mid- to late-C19 former barn to the west, which are both listed at Grade II.

History

The List entry for Land Cottage and Lancet Barn describes the building as an C18 stables. It is not depicted on the 1840 tithe map which suggests that the building is no earlier than mid-C19. There is a date stone to the south elevation which appears to be dated ‘1871’ and may reflect the date of construction. The stables are first shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map (1890) orientated north to south. Historic maps depict a range running west-east which originally connected with a former barn (now a dwelling known as West Barn) to the west. The eastern half of this range has been removed in the C20, and the former stables building is now detached. These agricultural buildings which were converted to dwellings in the late C20 were formerly associated with the Grade II listed Land Farm House to the south. This early C16 farmhouse was the birthplace of Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), surgeon and medical reformer, and founder of the medical journal ‘The Lancet’.

Drawings submitted with the planning application (1988) for its conversion indicate that the former stables now comprise two, three-bedroom dwellings with living accommodation to the ground floor.

Details

Materials: it is constructed of rubble stone with a gabled roof clad in Roman tiles. The south gable is weather boarded.

Plan: the linear building, orientated north to south, has been built into a bank.

Exterior: the former stables are of two storeys to the principal elevation (west) and one storey to the rear elevation (east) which provided access to the former loft space. The C20 doors and windows to the front and rear elevation appear to reuse the existing stable openings. To the rear elevation, half dormers mark the position of the rear windows and there are a set of stone steps to the right-hand door.

Interior: not inspected (2013) but may contain the cider press referred to in the original List Entry.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 88095
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Title: Membury Tithe Map Source Date: 1842 Author: Publisher: Surveyor:

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.