Tailrace
TAILRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108233
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tailrace
- Statutory Address:
- TAILRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108233
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Tailrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAILRACE
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:
- TAILRACE
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 79068 56051
Details
HARBERTON
1309/15/350 HARBERTONFORD 30-AUG-88 TAILRACE (Formerly listed as: HARBERTONFORD OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY EAST SOUTH EAS T OF CROWDY MILL)
II Former outbuilding, c.1840.
MATERIALS: The building is constructed of local rubble stone. There is a slate roof with gabled ends and clay ridge tiles. The lean-to extension has red brick quoins.
PLAN: Rectangular on plan and backs onto Harbourne River with small opening at lower level. There is a modest rectangular stone lean-to structure attached to the south.
EXTERIOR: A two storey building. The south-west front has two large ground floor doorways with timber lintels. Above the right hand doorway is a loft door. There is also a former loft door, now a window, in the north-west gable end. An earlier round gate-pier is incorporated into the north-west gable end below the window. The north-east front, facing the river, has a small window and has been raised at some stage. The attached lean-to structure to the south is single storey.
INTERIOR: Not Inspected (2009)
HISTORY: Mount Dart is not on the 1840 tithe map, but is shown on the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1888. Crowdy Mill itself is a late-C17/ early-C18 mill, possibly with earlier origins. The mill was enlarged circa 1840, which is probably when Tailrace was built as a barn or cart shed. The building was extended to the south in the C20. The building is currently in residential use.
REASON FOR DESIGNATION
Tailrace is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Although it has undergone sub-division, iterations and extensions, the building remains a characterful C19 former farm building. * It has a strong group value with nearby associated listed buildings, including Crowdy Mill.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101337
- 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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