Over Prestacott
OVER PRESTACOTT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104663
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Over Prestacott
- Statutory Address:
- OVER PRESTACOTT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104663
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Over Prestacott
- Statutory Address 1:
- OVER PRESTACOTT
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:
- OVER PRESTACOTT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashwater
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 39053 96343
Details
ASHWATER HIGHER PRESTACOTT SX 39 NE 3/21 Over Prestacott - II Farmhouse. Circa late C17/early C18, C19 fenestration. Rendered colourwashed cob on stone rubble footings, asbestos slate roof gabled at ends, formerly thatched, large rendered stack on ridge with brick chimney shaft, C19 brick chimney at right gable end. 2 room and through passage plan with the hall stack backing on to the passage and the lower end room probably originally unheated with a stack inserted in the C19. It is possible that there was originally an inner room which no longer exists and that the plan was 3 room and through passage. Rear left single-storey lean-to for dairy, now converted to a kitchen, is probably also C19. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3- window front with a C20 gabled porch. First floor window above porch is a 2-light C19 casement panes per light. Other windows 3-light C19 casements, 9 panes per light, all windows have internal iron stanchions. Interior The passage is intact. The hall fireplace has C19 timber jambs and lintel, the lintel said to conceal an earlier one. A new roof was put on over the old trusses, which have been truncated, when the thatch was replaced with asbestos slate.
Listing NGR: SX3912896101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90723
- 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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