Barn Approximately 4 Metres West of Higher Stiniel
BARN APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES WEST OF HIGHER STINIEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106185
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Approximately 4 Metres West of Higher Stiniel
- Statutory Address:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES WEST OF HIGHER STINIEL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106185
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Approximately 4 Metres West of Higher Stiniel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES WEST OF HIGHER STINIEL
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:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES WEST OF HIGHER STINIEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chagford
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7059985550
Details
SX 78 NW CHAGFORD
4/34 Barn approximately 4 metres west of
- Higher Stiniel
GV II
Bank barn. Late C17 or early C18. Granite rubble with large dressed granite quoins;
thatch roof.
Small bank barn terraced into the hillslope above Higher Stiniel (q.v.). The ground
floor is a stable facing east and the first floor a barn facing west. The stable
front has a doorway with a low segmental head to right and slit window to left, and 2
small unglazed windows above serving the barn. There is a another similar doorway to
the stable in the right (northern) end. The barn is loaded by a doorway in the
western side and has ventilator slits each end. Roof is half-hipped each end.
Interior has plain carpentry detail including a 5-bay roof of A-frame trusses with
pegged lap-jointed collars.
This is a well preserved small bank barn and unusual as an agricultural building
which is still thatched. Furthermore Stiniel is an exceptionally picturesque
Dartmoor hamlet and the barn forms part of a group which includes 3 important listed
farmhouses; Higher Stiniel (q.v), Stinhall (q.v) and Stinhall Cottage (q.v).
Listing NGR: SX7059985550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94565
- 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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