Clovelly Cross Filling Station
CLOVELLY CROSS FILLING STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104502
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Clovelly Cross Filling Station
- Statutory Address:
- CLOVELLY CROSS FILLING STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104502
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Clovelly Cross Filling Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOVELLY CROSS FILLING STATION
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:
- CLOVELLY CROSS FILLING STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clovelly
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 31318 23316
Details
CLOVELLY CLOVELLY CROSS SS 32 SW
5/97 Clovelly Cross Filling Station
GV II
Petrol filling station and station attendants house. 1930 by architects Orphoot and Whiting of Bideford for Christine Hamlyn. Brick walls, all roughcast and whitewashed, hipped and gabled slate roofs. Plan: in 2 halves; to right the petrol filling area with a covered filling area (a sort of port-clochere), flanking service rooms and shop at rear; to left the station-attendants house; all in a loose Italianate style; "a model of its kind". Exterior: covered filling area with a hipped roof with a bellcast, on front 2 narrow semi-circular headed archways which flank abroad central square-headed opening, emphasised imposts, underneath these arches stood the original petrol pumps, now replaced by those of the late C20; broad square-head opening on each return through which vehicles enter; along the rear the shop and cash-register area, this with a large replaced wood shop-front, flanking service rooms, hipped roofs, to left with a plank door (oil stove), to right lavatories; attached to the right the attendants house; single storey and attic, 2 coped verges to gables with rendered stacks at their apexes, small gabled central dormer with a 2-light 12-pane metal casement; 2 window openings on the ground floor, altered C20 3-light casements, flanking a central door opening in a projecting porch with incurving side walls, inserted altered late C20 outer door opening with small original corbels at eaves level. Short section of wall to each side of the house, ramped down to end piers with ball caps, a semi-circular head throughway to right, to left an inserted 2-light semi-circular head casement; leanto at rear; this formerly thought to be an ornamental verandah. Interior: not seen. Source: Western Morning News and Mercury, Nov.22, 1930.
Listing NGR: SS3131823316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Western Morning News and Mercury in 22 November, (1930)
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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