Lower Saunders
LOWER SAUNDERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107030
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Saunders
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER SAUNDERS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107030
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Saunders
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER SAUNDERS
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:
- LOWER SAUNDERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheriton Fitzpaine
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 86819 06202
Details
CHERITON FITZPAINE CHERITON FITZPAINE SS 80 NE 7/24 Lower Saunders - 26.8.65 GV II
House. C16 with C17 improvements. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks; thatched roof. Originally a 3- or 4-room-and-through-passage plan house facing road to south with inner room at left (west) end. There was apparently a lobby between hall and inner room with newel stair in projecting turret to rear. Projecting end stack to inner room (now disused) and projecting rear lateral stack to hall. 2 storeys. Irregular 5 window front of late C19 and C20 copy casement windows with glazing bars. Passage door towards right end under C20 thatch-gabled hood. Roof is half-hipped to right and gable-ended to left and carried over the top of the stack. Secondary door left end and C20 window of leaded panes. Rear includes a small light with old leaded glass and some small blocked window embrasures. Interior: the oldest structure apparent shows in the roof. 2 C16 closed trusses at western end. The western, over lobby-inner room partition, may never have been filled above collar level as roof appears smoke-blackened either side. C18 or C19 roof over hall, passage and service end. On ground floor any passage screen and hall-lobby partition have been removed. Cob crosswall to service end. Service room has plain-chamfered axial beam. Hall has C17 crossbeam, chamfered with scroll stops and contemporary rubble fireplace, its oak lintel has plain chamfer on slightly curved soffit. Inner room has late C17-early C18 axial beam, chamfered with runout stops.
Listing NGR: SS8681906202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96476
- 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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