TORRINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108472
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:: TORRINGS
Statutory Address:: TORRINGS

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Date:: 2002-08-11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108472
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:: TORRINGS
Statutory Address 1:: TORRINGS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TORRINGS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Chivelstone
National Grid Reference:: SX 77998 36502

Details

CHIVELSTONE EAST PRAWLE SX 73 NE 9/14 Torrings

II

House formerly farmhouse. Circa late C17 or early C18 with C20 alterations. Colour-washed stone rubble walls. Gable ended thatch roof. 2 stone rubble stacks, one axial and one at right gable end. Plan: 3-room plan with narrow room at left-hand end, through which house is entered and 2 larger rooms each heated by a fireplace in the end wall. Between them is an inserted C20 staircase. Later C18 or early C19 barn added at left-hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front mainly of circa early C20 4- pane sashes but also 2 single-light C20 casements. Leanto C20 porch to left with stable-type door. Barn at left-hand end, built partly into the hillside with a wide doorway towards the right-hand end and a smaller one further up. Interior: much altered in C20, beams have been replaced and fireplaces altered.

Listing NGR: SX7799436501

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Legacy System number:: 100709
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.