Cartref and Attached Smithy
CARTREF AND ATTACHED SMITHY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105158
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Cartref and Attached Smithy
- Statutory Address:
- CARTREF AND ATTACHED SMITHY
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- Date:
- 2003-11-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/11249/20
- Rights:
- © Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105158
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cartref and Attached Smithy
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARTREF AND ATTACHED SMITHY
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:
- CARTREF AND ATTACHED SMITHY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Monkleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4549720758
Details
SS4520
17/138
20.2.58
MONKLEIGH
Cartref and attached smithy (formerly listed as Bell Inn Cottage and Shop premises immediately East of Bell Inn)
GV.
II
Two dwellings, now house. C17, extended to rear and left in
early C18; c. 1840 smithy attached to right. Colourwashed render
over stone and cob. Thatch roof, gabled to left and hipped to
right; C17 ridge stack finished in mid C19 brick; C17 left end
external stack finished in mid C19 brick to left. C17 one-unit
plan, extended by one unit to rear and one unit to left in early
C18. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Two C20 porches, positioned
left of centre and to right; C20 door to left, mid C19 plank door
to right. Flat rendered arches over late C19 two-light
casements. Late C19 outshut adjoins early C18 rear wing, which
has C18 two-light casement with leaded lights. Interior: room to
left has cyma-moulded bressummer over open fireplace and C19
quarter-turn stairs with winders. Room to right has C17 open
fireplace with stop-chamfered bressummer. Principal rafters of
A-frame trusses visible on first floor. Subsidiary features:
former smithy of c. 1840 attached to right, of colourwashed stone
with gabled slate roof; crested ridge tiles with iron ventilator;
two brick ridge stacks. One storey. C20 sliding door set in
double entry; late C19 six-light window to right. C19 plank
double doors to cartshed on right. Mid C19 outbuilding to rear
of brick with Welsh slate and corrugated iron roof.
(Beaford Centre, Photographic Archive No. 04220, for Photograph
of c. 1900).
Listing NGR: SS4549720758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91456
- 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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