Poachers Pocket
POACHERS POCKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106993
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Poachers Pocket
- Statutory Address:
- POACHERS POCKET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106993
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Poachers Pocket
- Statutory Address 1:
- POACHERS POCKET
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:
- POACHERS POCKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colebrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 77166 00666
Details
COLEBROOKE COLEFORD SS 70 SE 3/79 Poachers Pocket - GV II
House, formerly 2 cottages. Probably C18 with C20 extension. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. Originally a pair of 1-room plan cottages facing south with end stacks. C20 extension to rear of left (west) room. 2 storeys. Originally a symmetrical 4- window front now of late C19 casements with glazing bars including close-set central pair of small single light windows at first floor level. Original central pair of doorways, that to right now blocked by C20 fixed pane window and that to left now a C20 glazed door and gabled and shingle-roofed porch. Roof hipped each end. Interior: has plain carpentry detail. Both rooms have roughly-chamfered crossbeams and large rubble fireplaces with roughly-chamfered oak lintels. Roof not inspected. Poachers Pocket was previously known as Southview.
Listing NGR: SS7716600666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96595
- 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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