SHELL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 175 METRES EAST OF TAPELEY PARK HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107579
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: SHELL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 175 METRES EAST OF TAPELEY PARK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SHELL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 175 METRES EAST OF TAPELEY PARK HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107579
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: SHELL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 175 METRES EAST OF TAPELEY PARK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SHELL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 175 METRES EAST OF TAPELEY PARK HOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: SHELL HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 175 METRES EAST OF TAPELEY PARK HOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Westleigh
National Grid Reference:: SS 47924 29057

Details

WESTLEIGH TAPELEY PARK SS 42 NE 3/119 Shell House approximately 175 metres east of Tapeley Park House GV II Shell house. Probably early C19. Stone rubble with brick dressings. Monopitch slate roof. Circular on plan with straight rear wall. 2 pointed arched doorways with brick arches flanking 2 diamond shaped windows with brick surrounds. Interior: lined with calcified limestone and shells with stalactite features on the ceiling tipped with conches. Patterned pitched stone floor. Benches around the side.

Listing NGR: SS4792429057

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 98843
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.