Fidget's Rest
FIDGET'S REST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104618
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fidget's Rest
- Statutory Address:
- FIDGET'S REST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104618
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fidget's Rest
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIDGET'S REST
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:
- FIDGET'S REST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashreigney
- National Grid Reference:
- SS6104814010
Details
SS 61 SW
6/29
ASHREIGNEY
RIDDLECOMBE
Fidget's Rest
GV
II
House. Probably medieval with early - mid C17 alterations,probably extended in C19.
Rendered cob walls. Hipped thatch roof. Projecting rendered rubble lateral stack
at front.
Plan: originally probably 2-room-and-through-passage plan with hall to right heated
by front lateral stack. The right-hand end of the house is probably a C19 extension
or conversion of an outbuilding.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, the right-hand end of which is a
lower extension with window only on the ground floor. 1 and 2-light C20 casements.
C20 thatched porch towards left-hand end has later C20 panelled door behind it.
Interior: said to have a smoke-blackened medieval roof structure. There may
be other early internal features.
Listing NGR: SS6104814010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90821
- 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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