Start Bay Inn
START BAY INN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107948
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Start Bay Inn
- Statutory Address:
- START BAY INN
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- Date:
- 2002-09-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/08642/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107948
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Start Bay Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- START BAY INN
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:
- START BAY INN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stokenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 82351 42211
Details
STOKENHAM TORCROSS SX84SW Start Bay Inn 8/229
GV II
Public house. Probably C17 extended in C18 or early C19 and C20. Painted and pebble dash stone rubble. Thatched roof with gable ends. Roof over C20 extension is hipped. Lateral and gable end stacks with pebble dash shafts. Plan: L-Shaped on plan. The original house is the long north range on an east-west axis with a lateral stack at the centre of the south side and another stack at the east end, the internal partitions have been removed and the range has been extended at the west end. The south east wing with a gable end stack is an addition of circa C18 or early Cl9 and has an outshut on its inner west side and a C20 single storey extension on its south end which returns to the west. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical elevation with C20 casements some with old slate sills. C20 doors, that on the north front with an open-fronted porch with a slate lean-to roof. The 3-window east front facing the sea has circa early C20 8-pane sashes, the first floor with boarded shutters. Interior: There are no exposed features in the main north range. The roof structure has been replaced.
Listing NGR: SX8235142211
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100013
- 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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