Corner House Court Stores
CORNER HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104512
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Corner House Court Stores
- Statutory Address:
- CORNER HOUSE, THE SQUARE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12834/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104512
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Corner House Court Stores
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORNER HOUSE, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- COURT STORES, THE SQUARE
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:
- CORNER HOUSE, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- COURT STORES, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sheepwash
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4865006296
Details
SHEEPWASH THE SQUARE, Sheepwash
SS 40 NE
7/104 Court Stores and Corner
House
21.2.77
GV II
Pair of houses, one incorporating shop. Circa late Cl7 possibly with earlier wing
to Court Stores, with C19 additions. Rendered cobb and rubble walls. Thatch roof
gabled to left end hipped to right. Brick stack at left end and axial to wing,
rendered rubble base with brick shaft.
Plan: The front range, consisting of Court Stores and adjoining cottage to the
left may have originated as 1 house but each now consists of 2 rooms, the outer
1 heated. Behind the right-hand end of Court Stores is a wing which may predate
the front range. To its left is a C19 rear outshut.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 6-window front 3:3. Both houses have circa mid C19
9-pane sashes on first floor. Corner House has two C19 12-pane sash windows on
ground floor. Court Stores has a similar window to the right and a late C20 2-light
casement without glazing bars to the left.
Both houses have identical later C19 doorhoods with cusped bargeboards. Corner
House has a late C20 panelled door. C19 lean-to against its left-hand end. Wing
behind Court Stores has C10 casements and A C20 panelled and glazed door to left.
Interior: Court Stores has C17 fireplace with chamfered and step-stopped wooden
lintel and cloam oven with door in right-hand room. C18 pegged A-frame roof
structure.
Listing NGR: SS4865006296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91079
- 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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