Heles Tenement and Adjoining Barn
HELES TENEMENT AND ADJOINING BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105045
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Heles Tenement and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address:
- HELES TENEMENT AND ADJOINING BARN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105045
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Heles Tenement and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- HELES TENEMENT AND ADJOINING BARN
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:
- HELES TENEMENT AND ADJOINING BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- High Bickington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 61379 21793
Details
HIGH BICKINGTON SS 62 SW 5/70 Heles Tenement and adjoining barn - II
House and adjoining barn. Probably mid-to late C17 with late C20 alterations and additions. Cob on stone rubble plinth, house-part rendered. Gable-ended corrugated- asbestos roof (formerly thatched). Rendered axial stack. Plan and development: C17 two-room plan house aligned approximately north- east/south-west, facing south-east (ground falls to left). Plan formerly consisted of principal larger room (hall) to right with axial end stack and smaller unheated room to left, divided axially, with dairy to rear and staircase to front. Late C20 alterations included the removal of the internal partitions and staircase at the left-hand end and the insertion of a new front door into the right-hand room, with a lean-to porch. Late C17 barn adjoining at right-hand end, with central opposed doorways (blocked to rear) and formerly with lean-to addition at front (see building line and sockets for former rafters). Two-storey house. Exterior: Asymmetrical 3-window front; C19 and C20 two-light wooden casements (left- hand first-floor window blocked - see cill). Doorway between first and second windows from right has late C20 porch with C20 plank door. Blocked doorway between first and second windows from left (see lines in render). Barn to right has wide doorway (without doors at time of survey - January 1988) with wooden lintel. Inserted C20 trefoil-headed ground-floor window in left-hand gable-end of house has reused C19 stained glass (the owner reports that it came from a church in Henley on Thames, Berkshire). Blocked wide doorway to rear of barn. Interior: Right-hand ground-floor room (hall) has C17 chamfered joists spanning front to back, and C17 open fireplace to right with stone jambs, chamfered wooden lintel with straight cut stops, bread oven with C19 cast-iron door and old cooking frame. Old plank door to right of fireplace (leading to barn) with wrought-iron strap hinges. Window seat in front window. Partitions removed at left-hand end in the late C20.
Listing NGR: SS6137921793
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91686
- 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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