Lower Yeatson
LOWER YEATSON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108400
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Yeatson
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER YEATSON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108400
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Yeatson
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER YEATSON
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:
- LOWER YEATSON
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 80914 56426
Details
ASHPRINGTON BOW SX85NW 6/35 Lower Yeatson
II
Farmhouse. Dated 1833. Local stone rubble with red brick window dressings. Scantle slate roof with gabled ends and deep eaves at the front. Brick stacks over the gable ends. Plan: Double depth plan with 2 principal front rooms and a narrow entrance hall at the centre leading to the stairs at the back. The services are in rooms at the back behind the principal rooms. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front with original 16-pane sashed with flat red brick arches and jambs and stone sills. Central doorway with C19 glazed and panelled door in a moulded frame, and a C20 glazed porch set on a flight of slate steps. At the rear an original central round-headed stair window; is is a sash with radial glazing bars in the head; and original 3-light casement windows with glazing bars. The left hand gable end has a round attic window with radiating glazing bars. Interior: Only the hall was inspected . It has a deeply moulded ceiling cornice and 6-panel doors. The staircase at the back has stick balusters and a moulded mahogany handrail. A mould plaster panel over the stair window is inscribed "Thomas Edmonds 1833". Kelly's Directory of 1856 lists Thomas Hunt Edmonds of Fore Street, Totnes as a solicitor. He appears to have built Lower Yeatson when upgrading Yeatson House (qv) for his own use.
Listing NGR: SX8091456426
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100944
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1856)
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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