GRANARY WITH DOVECOT OVER ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF SMALLACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1105590
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: GRANARY WITH DOVECOT OVER ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF SMALLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: GRANARY WITH DOVECOT OVER ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF SMALLACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1105590
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: GRANARY WITH DOVECOT OVER ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF SMALLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GRANARY WITH DOVECOT OVER ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF SMALLACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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:: 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

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

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

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.