Stables and Dovecot Approximately 40 Metres East of Painsford Manor
STABLES AND DOVECOT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF PAINSFORD MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108364
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Stables and Dovecot Approximately 40 Metres East of Painsford Manor
- Statutory Address:
- STABLES AND DOVECOT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF PAINSFORD MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108364
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Stables and Dovecot Approximately 40 Metres East of Painsford Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLES AND DOVECOT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF PAINSFORD MANOR
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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:
- STABLES AND DOVECOT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF PAINSFORD MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashprington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80126 56824
Details
ASHPRINGTON SX85NW PAINSFORD 6/48 Stables and Dovecot Approximately 40 Metres 9.2.61 East of Painsford Manor
GV II
Stable range and dovecot. Circa late C17. Slate rubble with Beerstone window frames. Grouted scantle slate roof with hipped right (south) end and gabled left (north) end; dovecot has gable-ended corrugated iron roof. Plan: Long rectangular range of 6 bays with a carriageway in the bay to the right (south) of centre. Hayloft above has access in the left hand (north) gable end where the ground level is higher; at right angles at north end on higher ground level a large rectangular dovecot. Exterior: 1-storey and loft. 3:13 bays. Dressed slate segmented arch carriageway through the bay to the right of centre, with chamfered imposts. 3 windows to the left and 2 to the right have Beerstone cross-mullion-transom frames, ovolo-moulded outside and cyma-moulded inside, all with dressed slate segmental relieving arches. The front is partly obscured by C20 outbuildings the windows are intact. The rear wall is blind except for the carriageway arch, and a loft doorway to the left. The north gable end has a large loft doorway with a chamfered timber lintels. The dovecot at the north end has wide doorway and path, blocked window with chamfered timber lintels, slate dripmould and large slit above in gable. Interior: The sides of the carriageway are flanked by stone rubble walls which rise only to the height of the siposts of the arches. To the right (south) 2 of the original posts of the 3 bays of the stall are intact; they are Tuscan timber columns; the partitions of the stalls have been removed. To the left the loft floor is supported on square section posts and this end may not have been the principal stabling. The dovecot has plaster wall inside with pigeon-holes on all four sides and a C20 roof structure. Roof: Late C19 soft wood scissor-braced trusses.
Listing NGR: SX8012656824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100957
- 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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