Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104557
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hembury
- Statutory Address:
- HEMBURY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104557
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hembury
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEMBURY
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:
- HEMBURY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland Filleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 48057 09403
Details
BUCKLAND FILLEIGH SS 40 NE 7/10 Hembury - - II House. Early to mid C17, possibly with earlier origins, with later C17 or C18 addition. Whitewasned cob and rubble walls. Thatch roof hipped at left end, half nipped to right and gabled to rear wing. Tall brick lateral stack at front and projecting rubble stack to rear gable with brick shaft. Plan: originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan but lower end to the right has been demolished and an early C20 lean-to built in its place. Hall is heated by front lateral stack with a projecting window bay adjoining it. Unheated inner room behind which was a large heated kitchen or parlour later C17/early C18 wing. Stairs inserted at rear of passage in C20. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front of circa mid C20 1 and 3-light casements. The ground floor right-hand window lights the hall and is in a single storey projection adjoining the lateral stack with a catslide roof extending over it. C19 plank door to the right with lean-to against right-hand end. Wing extends behind left-hand end. Rear elevation has a C17 3-lignt chamfered wooden mullion window on the 1st floor, otherwise early C20 2 and 3-light casements. Interior: inaccessible at time of survey but seem to contain chamfered ceiling beams. Hall fireplace and roof trusses may also be of interest. This house survives in a fairly unaltered state with a very picturesque exterior and has considerable landscape value.
Listing NGR: SS4805709403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90984
- 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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