Rabbit Warren Walls Immediately South East of Painsford Mill
RABBIT WARREN WALLS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH EAST OF PAINSFORD MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108365
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Rabbit Warren Walls Immediately South East of Painsford Mill
- Statutory Address:
- RABBIT WARREN WALLS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH EAST OF PAINSFORD MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108365
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Rabbit Warren Walls Immediately South East of Painsford Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- RABBIT WARREN WALLS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH EAST OF PAINSFORD MILL
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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:
- RABBIT WARREN WALLS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH EAST OF PAINSFORD MILL
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 80284 56532
Details
ASHPRINGTON SX85NW PAINSFORD 6/50 Rabbit Warren Walls Immediately South East of Painsford Mill
II
Rabbit warren boundary walls. C18 or much earlier. Local dressed slate rubble walls enclosing an irregular field on the hillside which drops down to a meadow to the north. The walls on the east and west ends are most complete. Here they are coursed horizontally inspite of being built on a steep slope and rise to about 1.75 metres high and have their original copping which has a slate course cantilevered out on the inside to prevent the rabbits from escaping. The south wall at the top of the slope has its top courses missing and is breached at the centre. The north wall at the bottom in the meadow has been reduced to less than half its original height. In the north east corner there is a disused small quarry from which the slate must have been obtained. A conveyance of 1801 mentions the rabbit warren and the building of the bridge immediately north ((qv) Bridge about 75 meters south east of Painsford Mill), therefore the rabbit warren was definitely in existence in 1801. Source: Information from the owner of Painsford Mill (1987).
Listing NGR: SX8028456530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100959
- 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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