Oak Ash and Thorn Including A Raised Pavement in Front

OAK ASH AND THORN INCLUDING A RAISED PAVEMENT IN FRONT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107329
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Oak Ash and Thorn Including A Raised Pavement in Front
Statutory Address:
OAK ASH AND THORN INCLUDING A RAISED PAVEMENT IN FRONT
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107329
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Oak Ash and Thorn Including A Raised Pavement in Front
Statutory Address 1:
OAK ASH AND THORN INCLUDING A RAISED PAVEMENT IN FRONT

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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Location

Statutory Address:
OAK ASH AND THORN INCLUDING A RAISED PAVEMENT IN FRONT

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

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
East Worlington
National Grid Reference:
SS 77309 13529

Details

EAST WORLINGTON SS 71 SE 8/9 Oak Ash and Thorn including a - raised pavement in front - II House, may have been divided into 2 cottages and reunited again. Early C17. Coursed local rubble with upper sections of walls in cob; half-hipped straw-thatched roof, large rubble lateral stack at the front, C20 brick shaft. Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to left with appears to have been unheated; central hall with the lateral stack on front, inner room also appears unheated, C19 outshut added to right end, no additions at the rear. In the C19 the house appears to have been divided into 2 cottages, that to the left occupying the passage and lower room and extended by an addition at the lower end; the right-hand cottage occupied the hall and inner room with its entrance into the inner room and a small leanto outbuilding added at the right end. Later reunited to one house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical, 3:2 windows, C19 2- and 3-light casements, wood lintels, horizontal glazing bars, except to left of first floor a C18 3-light casement, central light with iron casement and square-paned leaded lights; C19 2- light casement in the outshut. Principal door opening to the through-pasage to left of centre, old plank door with covering strips, heavy wooden frame. C20 door inserted to the inner room to right. Broad doorway with paired plank doors to the outshut. Rear elevation with C19 casements. Raised pavement to frontage pitched stone causeway with larger stones forming a curb, rubble retaining wall. Interior with hall fireplace with a wooden bressumer, and a bread oven remains of a former screen flanking higher side of through-passage, with 4-centred arched head to a doorway now partially blocked. Roof: C18 roof. An attractive traditional Devon house in an important roadside position

Listing NGR: SS7730913529

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Legacy System number:
97414
Legacy System:
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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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