Gays and Drews

GAYS AND DREWS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107072
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Gays and Drews
Statutory Address:
GAYS AND DREWS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107072
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Gays and Drews
Statutory Address 1:
GAYS AND DREWS

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GAYS AND DREWS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Newton St. Cyres
National Grid Reference:
SX 86494 98558

Details

NEWTON ST CYRES SMALL BROOK SX 89 NE 5/25 Gays and Drews - - II House, formerly farmhouse. Mid-C17 with earlier plan form. Plastered cob and rubble; brick stacks and slate roof, formerly thatch. North gable end rebuilt in C19 brick. 3-room and through passage plan with inner room to left (south). 2- storeys throughout with four rooms to first floor. Newel stair turret projects at rear (west) of hall. Faces east. 4 window front. C19 door to passage. C20 French windows to hall. Iron casements to outer rooms and C19 casements on first floor. Few original features exposed; ovolo-moulded ceiling beam to inner room, hall fireplace at upper end (brick and oak lintel chamfered with scroll stops), and double door frame at stairhead is chamfered with ornate scroll stops. Inner room has C19 brick kitchen fireplace backing onto hall. Other early features are probably hidden.

Listing NGR: SX8649498558

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
96376
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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