Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106552
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Searles
- Statutory Address:
- SEARLES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106552
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Searles
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEARLES
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:
- SEARLES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clayhidon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 16040 13752
Details
ST 11 SE CLAYHIDON 6/14 Searles - - II Also known as French Nut Tree Cottage. Detached house. Late C16 or early C17, and considerably altered. Random rubble chert; hipped slate roof. The house has been so altered that it is difficult to determine the original plan; 2 jointed cruck with collars that are both chamfered and stopped suggests that it might be a fragment of a larger building, perhaps a wing, for such high-quality roof carpentry would be unusual in a house as small as the present. Right-hand end stack. 2 storeys. Exterior: front: irregular fenestration; 2 half dormers and 2 C20 casement windows to ground floor. Some masonry disturbance suggests some rebuilding on the left-hand side, and the end elevation is mid C20. Rear: leanto, with a single light window to the left of the doorway. The doorway, possibly late C16, with chamfered jambs and cranked, pegged lintel. Interior: left-hand room with 2 cross ceiling beams, chamfered with hollow step stops, and a chamfered half beam near the present (rebuilt) end wall. Roof with 2 jointed cruck trusses; the collars, set high, are chamfered with step stops; trenched purlins; Alcock F2 type apex carpentry. The chamfered collars were presumably visible in what was once a high status chamber, perhaps in a parlour wing. The first local mention of the name Searles is in the will of John Searle of Hemyock, d.1613, he may have built the house.
Listing NGR: ST1604013752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95671
- 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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