Old Rixlade
OLD RIXLADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104414
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rixlade
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RIXLADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104414
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rixlade
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD RIXLADE
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 RIXLADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbotsham
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 41481 26728
Details
ABBOTSHAM RIXLADE SS42NW 2/23 Old Rixlade II Farmhouse. Late C17/early C18 with C19 alterations. Colourwashed render over coursed slatestone rubble with some cob; gabled slate roof; external left end stack of stone; rendered stone ridge stack and right end stacks. 3-unit plan with through-passage to right of central hall and C19 rear outshut. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Late C19 half-glazed door set in bracketed and pedimented architrave, flanked by late C19 canted bay windows with horned plate-glass sashes. Flat rendered arches over early C19 sixteen-pane sash to left and 12-pane sashes on first floor. Similar 12-pane sash and late C19 horned 12-pane sash in left gable end. Interior: early/mid C19 dog-leg staircase with landing to rear, with stick balusters and turned newels; room to left has chamfered beam, two C18 plank doors, a C18 panelled door and a C19 fireplace surround; first floor has C18 panelled door; A-frame roof trusses each with ridge purlin set in crossed apex, and trenching and pegs to hold through purlins (now gone); roof pitch widened in C19.
Listing NGR: SS4148126728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91340
- 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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