West Mead
WEST MEAD, PENSWELL CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107393
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- West Mead
- Statutory Address:
- WEST MEAD, PENSWELL CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107393
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- West Mead
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST MEAD, PENSWELL CROSS
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:
- WEST MEAD, PENSWELL CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rattery
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 74059 61782
Details
RATTERY PENSWELL CROSS SX 76 SW
6/50 West Mead
- II
House. Circa early C16, remodelled and extended in C17. Whitewashed and partly roughcast stone rubble. Asbestos slate hipped roof. Three room and through passage plan with open hall. Hall floored, rear lateral stack inserted and front wall of hall brought forward in C17, probably at same time as kitchen wing was added to rear of higher end. Later outshut added to front of lower end. Two storeys. Long three window range. C20 casements. Gabled hall projection to right of two storeys with stone hood mould over ground floor window and timber moulded lintel with run-out stops. First floor window has hood mould and chamfered lintel. Through passage doorway to left of centre with chamfered lintel and inserted fielded panelling to side of door, and C20 porch. Outshut to left hand of front. Interior: Inserted floor over hall has chamfered beams with run-out stops. Partly blocked hall lateral fireplace. Solid wall between hall and inner room. Two closely spaced ceiling beams in inner room, chamfered and with ogee stops. Chamfered beams in kitchen wing and large kitchen fireplace in end wall with C20 lintel and oven. Roof over main range has three trusses and one blade of fourth truss lightly smoke-blackened, and with morticed apices and morticed collars and threaded purlins. The collars and purlins are missing. Roof over lower end replaced but retains one circa C17 or C18 truss crossed at apex. Roof over kitchen wing entirely C20.
Listing NGR: SX7405961782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99325
- 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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