Shell House About 75 Metres North, North East of Oldstone
SHELL HOUSE ABOUT 75 METRES NORTH, NORTH EAST OF OLDSTONE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108054
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Shell House About 75 Metres North, North East of Oldstone
- Statutory Address:
- SHELL HOUSE ABOUT 75 METRES NORTH, NORTH EAST OF OLDSTONE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108054
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Shell House About 75 Metres North, North East of Oldstone
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHELL HOUSE ABOUT 75 METRES NORTH, NORTH EAST OF OLDSTONE
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:
- SHELL HOUSE ABOUT 75 METRES NORTH, NORTH EAST OF OLDSTONE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blackawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81732 51854
Details
BLACKAWTON SX85SW Shell House about 75 2/9 metres north, north east of Oldstone
GV II
Shell house. Circa late C18. Built of rustic quartz and sandstone with slate rubble and with limestone dressings. The shell-house is lined in sea shells, blue-and-white china and glass. Plan: Square chamber with flanking quadrant walls with an arch at either end. Exterior: The central shell-house has a large reused Medieval moulded 2- centred arch of limestone with multiple mouldings and cusped panels to the intrados. The outer arch is rusticated. The flanking quadrant walls are made of massive quartz boulders and return at either end with a chamfered 2- centre arch, the outer voussoirs rusticated. The left hand arch head has collapsed. Interior: The shell-house has a barrel-vaulted roof and the walls are rusticated and the whole is line in sea-shells, blue-and-white china and glass in decorative patterns. The back wall and end wall each have a central alcove, in the end wall there are 2 round riches above. The arch at the front of the shell-house right had come from Torr Abbey.
Listing NGR: SX8173251854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99800
- 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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