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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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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

Legacy System number:: 91751
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.