Greenslade House

GREENSLADE HOUSE, GREENSLADE LANE, SAMPFORD COURTNEY, EX20 2SF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1105370
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Greenslade House
Statutory Address:
GREENSLADE HOUSE, GREENSLADE LANE, SAMPFORD COURTNEY, EX20 2SF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1105370
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Greenslade House
Statutory Address 1:
GREENSLADE HOUSE, GREENSLADE LANE, SAMPFORD COURTNEY, EX20 2SF

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GREENSLADE HOUSE, GREENSLADE LANE, SAMPFORD COURTNEY, EX20 2SF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
North Tawton
National Grid Reference:
SS 64937 00262

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31/03/2016

SS 60 SW
5/66

NORTH TAWTON
GREENSLADE LANE
Greenslade House

(Formerly listed as Greenslade Farmhouse, NORTH TAWTON)

22.2.67

II*
Farmhouse. Probably has medieval core, altered and possibly extended in C17 and
C18. Rendered cob walls. Hipped thatch roof. 2 axial stacks which have brick
shafts on stone bases.
Plan: originally probably 3-room and through passage plan, lower end to the right,
which may initially have had an open hall with central stack inserted backing onto
the passage and another at the lower end of the inner room. The lower end remained
unheated but may have been extended. A wing was built on at the front of the inner
room which may always have had an inferior service or non-domestic function and the
end room of which was used as a stable with a granary or store above. In the late
C18 the back of the house was re-fashioned to become the front.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Elevation facing farmyard is asymmetrical with 2 windows and
wing projecting from left end. 1 and 2-light C19 leaded pane casements on ground
floor to the left. At centre is C20 leanto open-fronted porch with plank door
behind and very small C20 window above. Towards left-hand end is small thatched
gablet which probably had a window below. Wing has doorway at inner corner and
stone steps to its left leading to first floor door. To left of that on ground floor
is C17 plank door. The front elevation has long asymmetrical 5-window front with
gable over right-hand end. Windows are late C18 casements of 2, 3 and 4 lights some
with leaded panes. Above passage doorway is C17 3-light ovolo-moulded wooden
mullion window.
Interior: only limited access was gained but inner room seen to have heavy ceiling
beams and open fireplace. Roof timbers likely to be early. This house has
completely escaped C20 modernisation and probably contains a number of early
internal features whilst retaining a very traditional exterior.


Listing NGR: SS6493700262

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
92949
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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