Wall With Entrance and Attached Outbuildings to South of West Challacombe Manor

WALL WITH ENTRANCE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO SOUTH OF WEST CHALLACOMBE MANOR, WEST CHALLACOMBE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140108
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:
Wall With Entrance and Attached Outbuildings to South of West Challacombe Manor
Statutory Address:
WALL WITH ENTRANCE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO SOUTH OF WEST CHALLACOMBE MANOR, WEST CHALLACOMBE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140108
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:
Wall With Entrance and Attached Outbuildings to South of West Challacombe Manor
Statutory Address 1:
WALL WITH ENTRANCE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO SOUTH OF WEST CHALLACOMBE MANOR, WEST CHALLACOMBE LANE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WALL WITH ENTRANCE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS TO SOUTH OF WEST CHALLACOMBE MANOR, WEST CHALLACOMBE LANE

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

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Combe Martin
National Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
SS5866047545

Details

The following buildings shall be added:-

COMBE MARTIN WEST CHALLACOMBE LANE
SS 54 NE
1544-0/1/10000 Outbuilding to SE of West
Challacombe Manor
GV II
Outbuilding. C15, truncated and altered in C19. Built of local coursed
rubble stone, with slate roof. North gable wall built on bedrock.
Lean-to has corrugated iron roof. EXTERIOR: 2-storey outbuilding
attached to one-storey lean-to with timber lintels over openings. PLAN:
2 bays remaining (in outbuilding to north) of 7-bay building running
north-south; south gable wall of outbuilding is not tied in and is
probably a C19 insertion; lean-to to south is built onto rest of
remaining east wall. INTERIOR: one raised cruck truss surviving with
feet of blades just below loft level, set on wooden pads in the walls;
small square yoke tenoned and pegged into blades. Collar cranked and
pegged with carpenter's mark III on blade and collar. C19/C20 purlins;
rafters and ridge. Remains of truss blade and pad in east wall where
inserted south gable meets east wall. Four more pads with infill where
blades would have been survive in the east wall under lean-to. Included
for its group value, retention of C15 fabric and relationship to the C15
manor house (qv). A fragmentary but rare example of a C15 outbuilding
surviving on a small manor house complex, grouping with the wall and
entrance (qv) of the same date.


Listing NGR: SS5866047545

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
352095
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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