SEARLES
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1106552
Date first listed: 15-Apr-1987
Statutory Address: SEARLES
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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
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
ST 11 SE CLAYHIDON
6/14 Searles
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- 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
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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.
End of official listing