Old Orchard
Old Orchard, Holy City, Axminster, EX13 7JZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098553
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Orchard
- Statutory Address:
- Old Orchard, Holy City, Axminster, EX13 7JZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098553
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Orchard
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Orchard, Holy City, Axminster, EX13 7JZ
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:
- Old Orchard, Holy City, Axminster, EX13 7JZ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chardstock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29460 05229
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 August 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
ST 20 NE
2/128
CHARDSTOCK
HOLY CITY
Old Orchard
(Formely listed as WHITEHOUSE Old Orchard or Lower White House)
II
House. Circa C16 stone rubble house with stone dressings. Possibly a former hall house with inserted floor. Thatched roof with stone coping to gable ends. Two storeys. Four window range. Four light ovolo moulded stone mullion windows with hood moulds and leaded panes. Right hand doorway to cross-passage, with old plank door at back. Similar three light stone mullion window on gable end to road. Half hipped thatched wing at rear with five light chamfered wood mullion window. Semi-circular stair tower at rear enclosed in later lean-to. Rebuilt brick ridge and end chimney stacks. Situated at right angles to road.
Interior: cross-passage. Stopped chamfer ceiling beams and open fireplaces with stopped chamfer bressummers. Two circa later C16 moulded stone chimneypieces in first floor rooms.
Listing NGR: ST2946005229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87817
- 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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