Garden Walls at South Hill
GARDEN WALLS AT SOUTH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105031
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls at South Hill
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALLS AT SOUTH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105031
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls at South Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALLS AT SOUTH 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:
- GARDEN WALLS AT SOUTH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Torrington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4914317637
Details
LITTLE TORRINGTON
SS 41 NE at 491176
13/7 Garden Walls at South Hill
5.5.88
II
Kitchen garden walls. C18 and C19. Mainly brick, same stone rubble. A complete
quadrangle of walls lying immediately east of North Hall Cottages (not included
in the listing), enclosed to north and east by hedgerow and 'fossel about 5m
wide. North and south sides extend about 20 metres, west 60 metres and east
85 metres. Walls to west, south, and east are in brickwork, usually English
bond, but some Plemish bond in west wall; the north wall has rubble externally
but is lined internally with brick. Copings in brick or in rendered brick or
stone. On west side, centrally, an opening flanked by pier and with flat segmenta
head; on east side a small opeining with segmental head, also a lean-to unit
externally in two rooms with central door flanked by opening each side, facing
into gardens. Plinth with moulded offset brick rises to c.1.5m on east side,
various external piers of shallow projections, wall rises to c.3.5m at highest
point which is the swept-up north-west corner, elsewhere c.2.5 to 3m. Two rating
buttreses near west end of north wall. At time of inspection the interior space
heavily overgrown (April 1988) and internal surfaces inspected only in part.
Much of the brickwork looks like C18 work of high quality.
Listing NGR: SS4914317637
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91751
- 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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