Winscott

WINSCOTT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104605
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Winscott
Statutory Address:
WINSCOTT

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104605
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Winscott
Statutory Address 1:
WINSCOTT

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WINSCOTT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Dowland
National Grid Reference:
SS5792109777

Details

DOWLAND UPCOTT
SS 50 NE
8/112 Winscott
II
Small house. Early C18 with mid to late C20 addition. Rendered cob and rubble
walls. Gable-ended thatch roof. 2 C20 rubble gable-end stacks.
Plan: originally probably 1-room plan heated by fireplace at right-hand end. C19
leanto at right-hand end. C20 1-room extension built at left-hand end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, left-hand windows are in
extension which is slightly recessed. All mid to later C20 2-light ovolo-moulded
wooden mullion windows. Thatch roofed porch to left of centre with C20 plank door
behind. The 1st floor windows have small gables above. Leanto against right-hand
end.
Interior: open fireplace with rough wooden lintel. Ceiling beams have been
replaced.


Listing NGR: SS5792109777

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
90900
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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