Ye Olde Inn
YE OLDE INN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105012
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Inn
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE INN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105012
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLDE INN
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:
- YE OLDE INN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Roborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 57596 17107
Details
ROBOROUGH ROBOROUGH SS 5717 19/187 Ye Olde Inn - GV II
House, now inn. Late C17 or early C18, enlarged in the mid C19 and altered in the late C19 or early C20. Rendered cob and wheatstraw thatched roof with brick and rendered end stacks. Rendered addition (probably over stone rubble) with gable-ended Welsh-slate roof. Outshut at rear with lean-to Welsh-slate roof. Plan and development: Late C17 or early C18 two-room central-entrance plan with integral end stacks, facing south. Mid C19 one-room plan addition at right-hand end, and C19 outshut at rear of circa 1900 range and circa 1900 bay window and porch to front. Internal partitions in circa 1700 range removed, probably in the C20, but there was probably formerly a central stair rising from an entrance lobby. Two storeys with one-storey outshut. Exterior: Roughly symmetrical 2-window front. First-floor C19 two-light wooden casements and ground-floor C19 three-light wooden casement to right. Square bay window to left with small-paned sash window and hipped slate roof, projecting to right to form porch, supported on a wooden bracket. Central pair of circa 1900 glazed doors. Right-hand addition has one mid C19 horned glazing bar sash to each floor, 12-pane to first floor and tripartite to ground floor (centre of 8 panes and side lights of 4 panes), both with stone cills. Right-hand gable end has a 6-paned horned sash to each floor, both with stone cills. End window possibly circa 1900 insertions (see different glazing pattern and deeper cills). Interior: Former right-hand ground-floor room of the circa 1700 range has a roll- moulded cross beam and ogee-moulded joists. Circa 1900 brick-arched fireplace to right. The former right-hand ground-floor room has C20 ceiling joists.
Listing NGR: SS5759617107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91803
- 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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