Ye Olde Priest's House
YE OLDE PRIEST'S HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105743
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Priest's House
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE PRIEST'S HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105743
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Priest's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLDE PRIEST'S HOUSE
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:
- YE OLDE PRIEST'S HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 45121 77028
Details
LAMERTON LAMERTON SX 47 NE 3/58 Ye Olde Priest's House - GV II
Church house, now called priest's house. C13 origin, rebuilt late C16 reusing earlier materials, restoration of 1934 dated on front. Mixed slatestone random rubble with granite and greenstone dressings and quoins, slate roof with raised coped verges and gable stack to left. Single-room plan with central entrance, heated by left-hand gable end fireplace, now divided by brick partition to right of entrance. Entrance to upper room at higher ground level to rear. 2 storeys, with upper room at ground level with the churchyard of Church of St Peter (qv) to north; central tall 4-centred arched door opening, chamfered, with rebuilt lower jamb to right, C20 door with studs and strap hinges, narrow single light to left with rough-cut surround, square single light to right, 2 raking dormers, all with C20 leaded lights. Right return has small rectangular opening with timber lintel to lower right, shuttered, in gable end a 2-light stone mullioned window with 3-centred arched heads, hollow-chamfered with hood-mould, iron lattice and similar glazing. Rear has raking dormer over door to upper room with large irregular stone jambs, C20 studded door, stack encroached by adjoining building to right. Interior ground floor originally one room, now with brick partition to right, fireplace has flat stone lintel, chamfered corbel to right with pyramid stops, straight stone jamb, left side not visible, blocked by C20 partition, C20 flooring and roof to upper level. (Sources: Copeland, G.W.: Devonshire Church-houses in Trans. Dev. Assoc. vol. XCII 1960).
Listing NGR: SX4512177028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93954
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 92, (1960)
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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