The Retreat
THE RETREAT, CLEAVE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104587
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address:
- THE RETREAT, CLEAVE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104587
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RETREAT, CLEAVE HILL
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:
- THE RETREAT, CLEAVE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dolton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5700811951
Details
DOLTON
CLEAVE HILL, Dolton
21.2.77
SS 51 SE
5/67
The Retreat
GV
II
House, originally farmhouse. Early C17 or possibly earlier, probably extended in
C18 with C19 and C20 additions. Plastered cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof.
Brick stack at either end, large rendered rear lateral stack and rendered, probably
rubble axial stack.
Plan: originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to the right. Hall
stack backs onto passage, inner room heated by gable-end stack. The lower end is
slightly puzzling because it is extremely long and was evidently formerly 2 rooms
yet the lack of a solid wall between the 2 parts suggests they are both of the same
date - it is possible that the end room was originally some form of outbuilding. At
the rear of the passage is a stair projection which appears externally to be C17 but
contains a C19 staircase. C19 outshut added behind left and right-hand ends of
house. C20 leanto built against front of left-hand end may replace an earlier
structure.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front of late C20 2-light casements,
some with small panes, in small openings. C20 glazed gabled porch to passage to
right of centre with part-glazed door. C20 stable type door towards right-hand end.
C20 leanto projecting from left-hand end with small porch in angle which has plank
door. Rear elevation has small gabled stair projection to left of centre and C19
outshut to left and right. To right of centre are 2 C18 square section leaded light
wooden mullion windows - one on each floor.
Interior: left-hand room has roughly chamfered wooden lintel to fireplaces and
rough axial beam. Hall fireplace has plain wooden lintel and oven. The fireplace
back, facing the passage, is constructed of small coursed dressed stones. Probably
C17 substantial straight principal rafters with threaded or trenched purlins and
collars halved on.
Listing NGR: SS5700811951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90860
- 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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