GRANARY WITH DOVECOT OVER ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF SMALLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1105590
Date first listed: 07-Nov-1985
Statutory Address: GRANARY WITH DOVECOT OVER ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF SMALLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
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Location
Statutory Address: GRANARY WITH DOVECOT OVER ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF SMALLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish: Lifton
National Grid Reference: SX 37148 86162
Summary
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History
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Details
SW 38 NE LIFTON
2/123 Granary with dovecot over about 30m
- north west of Smallacombe Farmhouse
GV II*
Granary with dovecot over. Circa early C18. Flemish bond brick with bitumen-painted
slate roof with low pitched gables at ends and to the front. 2 storeys with granary
raised on 12 brick staddles and first floor dovecot. Symmetrical front with central
entrance to granary reached by a probably C19 flight of stone steps replacing a
timber ladder. 2 round-headed niches on front to right and left of door have brick
arches. First floor entrance to dovecot below a later brick arch and rectangular
recess. Bullseyes with brick voussoirs to either side of the entrance, 1 preserves
its glazing bars. Pigeon entrance under a Diocletian lunette arch in the front gable
with brick arches. Bullseye ventilation holes to left and right sides of dovecot, 1
retains an ornamental slate louvre. Some pigeon holes below ventilators.
Interior Not inspected but said to contain 7 tiers of nest holes, 13 holes to each
tier with unusual rear inter-communication (Copeland). An unusually grand building
of its type and probably designed in conjunction with the rebuilding of the
farmhouse. G.W. Copeland, T.D.A., vol. 75 (1943), pp. 267 - 272.
Listing NGR: SX3714886162
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 92369
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'Transactions of Devonshire Association' in Transactions of Devonshire Association, , Vol. 75, (1943), 267-272
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing