Putsborough Manor House and Attached Barn to Rear Including Garden Walls on 3 Sides to Front of House

PUTSBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN TO REAR INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ON 3 SIDES TO FRONT OF HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107770
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1965
List Entry Name:
Putsborough Manor House and Attached Barn to Rear Including Garden Walls on 3 Sides to Front of House
Statutory Address:
PUTSBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN TO REAR INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ON 3 SIDES TO FRONT OF HOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107770
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1965
List Entry Name:
Putsborough Manor House and Attached Barn to Rear Including Garden Walls on 3 Sides to Front of House
Statutory Address 1:
PUTSBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN TO REAR INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ON 3 SIDES TO FRONT OF HOUSE

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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:
PUTSBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN TO REAR INCLUDING GARDEN WALLS ON 3 SIDES TO FRONT OF HOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Georgeham
National Grid Reference:
SS4485140242

Details

SS 44 SW GEORGEHAM PUTSBOROUGH

2/150 Putsborough Manor House and
- attached barn to rear including
25.2.65 garden walls on 3 sides to front
- of house

GV II

House, early Cl7. Rubble, rendered to the upper storey and surrounds to ground
floor openings. Thatch roof with gable end rubble stacks, axial stack and lateral
stack to rear enclosed in 2-storey outshut. Half-hipped, thatched roof to barn.
Essentially 3-cell and cross-passage plan to main range but internal partitions
altered, the hall now divided. Part of dwelling extends into the barn at rear at
right angles to main range forming L-shape and further outbuilding adjoining at
lower end converted into part of dwelling in early C20 with partly rounded single
storey extension to the rear with thatched roof in the left side angle of the L-
shape. 2 storeys. 8 window range of 2-light casements 9 panes with 3 panes
above, each light with eyebrow dormers. Off-centre projecting porch with half-
hipped thatch roof. Panelled porch door, half-glazed with 9 panes and margin
glazing bars. All ground floor casements are 2-lights with 8 panes each light
except for French windows inserted at upper end. Wide hall fireplace with
chamfered lintel, and chamfered and stopped ceiling beam. Chamber over lower end
has moulded plaster cornice and plaster roundel on one wall initialled AH and dated
1712 (q.v. Home House, Croyde). Roughly hewn Cl7 trusses and purlins intact. The
rear barn extension incorporates early doorway with ovolo-moulded surround with
scroll stops and early ledged door of 5 boards with nailed cover strips. The barn
has 2 exposed raised cruck trusses with nailed collars and 2 sets of trenched
purlins. Rubble walls with various upright stone cappings enclosing garden on 3
sides to front of house with small doorway with Jacobethan door to front wall on
left side.


Listing NGR: SS4485140242

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
98402
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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