Allerton Pottery Barn Adjoining North-west of Lower Allerton Farmhouse
ALLERTON POTTERY BARN ADJOINING NORTH-WEST OF LOWER ALLERTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108345
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Allerton Pottery Barn Adjoining North-west of Lower Allerton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ALLERTON POTTERY BARN ADJOINING NORTH-WEST OF LOWER ALLERTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108345
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Allerton Pottery Barn Adjoining North-west of Lower Allerton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALLERTON POTTERY BARN ADJOINING NORTH-WEST OF LOWER ALLERTON FARMHOUSE
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:
- ALLERTON POTTERY BARN ADJOINING NORTH-WEST OF LOWER ALLERTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 76317 61502
Details
DARTINGTON
1309/1/100 ALLERTON POTTERY BARN ADJOINING NORTH- 08-JUL-86 WEST OF LOWER ALLERTON FARMHOUSE (Formerly listed as: BARN ADJOINING NORTHWEST OF LOWER ALLE RTON FARMHOUSE)
II Early C17 barn remodelled in the C19 and converted to domestic use in the late C20.
MATERIALS: The rebuilt C19 front wall is constructed of local limestone rubble. The rear wall has a stone rubble lower section of wall and cob above. It has a half hipped slate roof.
PLAN: The original threshing barn is five bays, with the threshing floor to the centre bay. It was extended to the left (north-west) end in the C19 and a floor inserted to form shippons on the ground floor with loft above.
EXTERIOR: The barn doorway is to the right with the main roof carried down over the later porch in the angle with the rear wing of the house. To the left are three shippon doorways with segmented stone arches and two ventilation slits above. At the rear the barn doorway has a shouldered head which may be C16. Roof lights have been inserted.
INTERIOR: The roof has two C17 trusses, the principal rafters have short cranked feet and another with straight feet: threaded purlins and cranked collards. The other trusses are C19. SOURCES: N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Devon (2004) 319
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Allerton Pottery Barn adjoining north-west of Lower Allerton Farmhouse is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Architectural Interest: The barn has early C17 origins as a threshing barn and retains two C17 roof trusses and a shouldered head to the rear doorway which may be C16 Historical Interest: The barn was extended in the C19 to provide shippons with loft above illustrating the agricultural development of the barn Group Value: It forms an important group with the attached Grade II listed C16 Lower Allerton Farmhouse
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101012
- 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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