Rosdene

ROSDENE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107302
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Rosdene
Statutory Address:
ROSDENE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107302
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Rosdene
Statutory Address 1:
ROSDENE

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:
ROSDENE

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

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Meshaw
National Grid Reference:
SS7595919622

Details

SS 71 NE
4/43

MESHAW
MESHAW
Rosedene

GV
II

House, partly divided to form a post office early C20, now all one house again.
Early C18, C19 alteration, including refenestration and leanto at rear. Rubble
and cob, rendered and colourwashed, wheat straw-thatched roof gabled ends, tall
brick axial stack to right with offsets with corrugated iron.
Plan: 2 rooms on ground floor with direct entry into hall to right, heated by the
gable-end stack, unheated service room to left with early C20 door opening inserted
to form direct access. C19 leanto at rear.
Exterior: 2 storeys, almost symmetrical, 2 window range, C19 2-light casements
with glazing bars, except C19 shop window of 12-panes to left of ground floor. 2
door openings to centre side by side, to left plank door, to right late C20 half-
glazed door. Thatched eaves run down at rear over a lean-to, no window openings.
Interior: hall with blocked gable-end fireplace with C20 gate. Lateral ceiling
beam with run-out stops. Service room with early C20 post office fittings including
counter with grille and telephone booth, quite an unusual survival. First floor
featureless.
Roof: with trusses with lapped pegged collars, probably early C18.
Prominent roadside position at the road entrance to Meshaw.

Listing NGR: SS7595919622

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
97448
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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