Plovers Barrows
PLOVERS BARROWS, 18, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107285
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Plovers Barrows
- Statutory Address:
- PLOVERS BARROWS, 18, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107285
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Plovers Barrows
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLOVERS BARROWS, 18, WEST 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:
- PLOVERS BARROWS, 18, WEST 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 80321 14480
Details
WITHERIDGE WEST STREET (north side) SS 81 SW Witheridge 9/109 No.18 (Plovers Barrows) (previously listed as Paradise 20.2.67 Cottage) GV II Cottage. Circa late C15 or early C16, floored later C16, C19 internal re- arrangement and external refenestration, further C20 work. Plan and development: the cottage is the hall and lower room of through-passage and 3-room house, the lower room was always floored over, this flooring over continued aver the passage and jettied out into the hall, hall floored over late C16. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 3 windows, 2-light C19 casements with glazing bars to the first floor, 2 larger 2-light C19 casements on the ground floor. Central door opening, half-glazed door, C20 ledge hood. Further small opening with a barred iron frame, inserted late C20 to right of the door opening. Interior: with plank and muntin screen to the higher side of the through-passage. The ends of the internal jetty beams project into the hall. The hall with a fireplace with a broad wooden bressumer, rear lateral stack. Lower room to left with a fireplace with a narrow wooden bressumer. Roof: a cruck truss is visible from the chamber over the hall which is ceiled and there is a closed truss of both the higher and lower ends of the hall, so that the roof space above is inaccessible. The inner room is now part of No.16 (Lynecroft)(qv.)
Listing NGR: SS8032114480
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97519
- 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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