Youldens
YOULDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108229
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Youldens
- Statutory Address:
- YOULDENS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108229
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Youldens
- Statutory Address 1:
- YOULDENS
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:
- YOULDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harberton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 78407 56056
Details
HARBERTON SX7856-SX7956 HARBERTON Ford 15/426 Youldens
II
House, formerly a farmhouse. Probably C17 or earlier, extended in C17 or C18 and altered in circa early C19. Slate rubble, east side rendered and south end slate hung. Asbestos slate hipped and gable-ended roofs. Plan: Possibly originally a 3-room and through passage plan, the lower end to the right. Axial stack at lower end of former hall. The house seems to have been truncated at the high end and a circa C17 or C18 wing with a gable end stack built at rear of the former hall forming an overall L-shaped plan. Exterior: 2 storeys. The former lower end and the east side of the former rear wing now form the main front. To the left the wing has one C19 or early C20 3-light casement on each floor, 3 lights to ground floor, 2 lights to first floor. Early C19 moulded 6-panel door, top panels glazed and with canopy of single piece of slate, in the angle with the wing to right which is the lower end of the original house, its end wall has early C19 tripartite sash on ground floor and early 16-pane first floor sash. One C20 casement on ground floor tyo right. Tall thin lateral stack on left hand return. Right hand return, probably the front of the original house has wide doorway to former through passage partly blocked to take later door. Wide shallow raking buttress to right of doorway. Ground floor C19 3-light casement with glazing bars, cuts through lintel of what was possibly the original hall window. Above to left another C19 3-light casement with glazing bars. The lower left hand end of this front has C19 3-light and 2-light casements. Interior: Passage lower side partition removed recently (1980s) and rear doorway blocked. Former hall fireplace blocked. Hall has chamfered ceiling beam with straight cut stops and cupboard with fielded panel doors. Early C19 framed staircase with square newels, stick balusters and moulded handrail. On ground floor some early C19 panelled doors. On first floor some C18 2-panel doors. Roof over hall in main range has 2 trusses with straight principals with threaded purlins and missing threaded ridge piece and lapped and pegged collars. Roof over lower end replaced. The rear wing has truss with princiapsl with threaded purlins, one truss cut off.
Listing NGR: SX7840756056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101330
- 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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