Ditchetts
DITCHETTS, 4, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107274
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Ditchetts
- Statutory Address:
- DITCHETTS, 4, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107274
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Ditchetts
- Statutory Address 1:
- DITCHETTS, 4, FORE STREET
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:
- DITCHETTS, 4, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witheridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 80473 14467
Details
WITHERIDGE FORE STREET (south side), SS 81 SW Witheridge 9/80 No. 4 (Ditchetts) 25.3.77 GV II House. Early C16, floored late C16 or early C17, C17 wing at right-angles to the right return, 2 further late C18 wings added at right-angles to front. Roughcast and pebbledashed, probably over a rubble core, straw-thatched roof with a hip on the wing to the right, brick stack to the left and a brick stack on the right return. 2 C18 wings on front with hipped slate roofs. Plan and development: open hall house; subsequently a chamber was inserted over the right end, probably mid C16. In the late C16 or early C17 the whole hall was floored creating a 3-room plan; a large central room with an axial stack to left side, an unheated room beyond it to the left which is smaller in size. Further small room to right of the large central room heated by a rear corner fireplace. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 3 windows, 3 four-pane double-hung sashes, a 2- light casement with glazing bars to extreme left of first floor, and a C20 casement to the right of the ground floor. Door opening between the second and third bays, 4-panelled door with a transomlight, door opening to extreme left with paired plank doors. Rear elevation with C19 fenestration. Interior: has been much altered in the C18 and C19. Small room to the right-hand with corner fireplace with a wooden bressumer with chamfer and ogee stops. The 2 further fireplaces on the ground floor with what are probably C18 bressumers, unchamfered. There are other C18 features on the ground floor including doors and panelling. The kitchen in wing to rear with C18 cupboard and reused Gothic wainscotting. Roof: a complete jointed cruck truss survives over the centre of the house, heavy notched cranked collar, threaded diagonal ridge adjacent common rafters, through purlins, battens. The whole is heavily smoke-blackened, also the remains of lightly-blackened thatch. The roof over the right part of the house was replaced in the C18, simple joinery. The cruck truss is closed, plastered right up to the apex, with remains of colourwash to the right side, indicating the existence of a chamber ovr the right (higher) end of the house.
Listing NGR: SS8047314467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97484
- 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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