Bales Tenement
BALES TENEMENT, LONGPOT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107691
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bales Tenement
- Statutory Address:
- BALES TENEMENT, LONGPOT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107691
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bales Tenement
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALES TENEMENT, LONGPOT LANE
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:
- BALES TENEMENT, LONGPOT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Loxhore
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 61188 37712
Details
LOXHORE LONGPOT LANE (east side) SS 63 NW 4/133 Bales Tenement
GV II
Farmhouse. C17 but possibly earlier origins. Whitewashed rendered rubble. Scantling slate roof with gable ends. Brick stack at right end and tall rubble front lateral hall. stack heightened in brick. Truncated stack heating first floor only at left gable end. 3-cell through-passage plan with extended lower end, possibly originally a byre. 2-storeys, 4-window range C20 fenestration. Hall window breaks forward in line with stack slated lean-to canopy. Asbestos slate lean-to roof to porch and cross-passage plank door. Small 4-paned casements to right. Ground floor openings have thin slate dripmoulds. Small L-shape single- storied right angled projection to rear with brick stack and projecting bread oven with rounded slate cap. Blocked pigeon holes to rear wall of main range and projecting stair turret towards right end. Blocked through-passage doorway also to rear. 4, possibly C17 trusses survive but roof space not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS6118837712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98616
- 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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