Overock
OVEROCK, ROCK BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106648
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Overock
- Statutory Address:
- OVEROCK, ROCK BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106648
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Overock
- Statutory Address 1:
- OVEROCK, ROCK BRIDGE
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:
- OVEROCK, ROCK BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Halberton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 01675 13186
Details
In the entry for 2/206 HALBERTON C.P. ROCK BRIDGE Turnpike Cottage
The address shall be amended to read ROCK BRIDGE Overock
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HALBERTON ROCK BRIDGE ST 01 SW 2/206 - Turnpike Cottage GV II Detached cottage. Circa 1814, possibly by John Rennie, the engineer of the Grand Western Canal. Random rubble sandstone with gabled end pantiled roof. End stacks with stubby brick shafts emerge from heavily coped end gables. 2-room central entrance plan with service rooms in rear integral outshut. 2-storeys. Front: symmmetrical 3-window range; moulded stone cornice and rusticated quoins. Round-headed windows to both floors, with rusticated architraves; 6-panes per casement and semi-circular light above, similar windows below but 3-panes per casement. String course drops and takes in sills of first floor windows; open timber porch with slate roofs and crested ridge tiles looks later. Cornice continues as string course to foot of end elevation gable walls, which each contain one 2-light round headed window, apex blocked. Rear lean-to outshut with prominent plastered stack to roadside. Turnpike Cottage contributes to a group that includes Rock House and its rear outbuildings.
Listing NGR: ST0167513186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95392
- 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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