Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106736
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Leytown
- Statutory Address:
- LEYTOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106736
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Leytown
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEYTOWN
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:
- LEYTOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chulmleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 68194 16437
Details
CHULMLEIGH SS 61 NE 3/18 Leytown - II Tenement farmhouse. Probably early C18 extended at rear in early C20. Painted roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob. Thatch roof, gable end to right, half- hipped at left end. Rendered stacks at each end, that to left is C20, that to right has bread oven projection. Plan: 2-room plan, with direct entry into larger right-hand room, with staircase, formerly running from back to front but reversed in C20, immediately to left of entrance. Left-hand room formerly unheated and divided into 2 rooms, probably cellar/pantry. Early C20 gable-ended 2-storey rear kitchen wing creating overall T- shaped plan. Exterior: 2 storeys. 3-window range. Upper storey retains early C19 3-light casements with rectangular leaded panes. Ground floor has C20 2-light to left and 3- light to right of C20 leanto porch and doorway. Interior: undergoing alteration at time of survey. (July 1986). Right-hand room has unchamfered fireplace lintel and bread oven. Chamber over has roughly chamfered scroll-stopped fireplace lintel. Roughly pegged A-frame trusses with pegged lapped collars.
Listing NGR: SS6819416437
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97196
- 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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