Pitt Head
PITT HEAD, PALMERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141385
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pitt Head
- Statutory Address:
- PITT HEAD, PALMERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141385
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pitt Head
- Statutory Address 1:
- PITT HEAD, PALMERS LANE
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:
- PITT HEAD, PALMERS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rockbeare
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 04599 94196
Details
SY 09 SW ROCKBEARE PALMERS LANE
3/113 Pitt Head -
- II
Cottage and former outbuildings. Probably late C18-early C19, modernised circa 1980. Apparently plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or brick stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. The original house faces south-west and backs onto the lane. It has a 2-room plan with central staircase and end stacks. Former outbuildings on the same axis and attached to the right (south-eastern) have now been brought into the house forming a 2-room service block with axial stack and there is a narrow store attached to the end. 2 storeys. Main block has symmetrical 3-window front of late C19 casements with glazing bars; outer 3 lights and central first floor 2 lights. Central door is original 6-panel door in which the top panels now contain tiny panes of Victorian leaded glass. The porch is probably mid or late C19; it is flat-roofed and supported on slender turned timber posts and sides are trellised. The roof is steeply-pitched and hipped both ends. The lower service block to right is set back a little from the main front. It contains 2 C19 ground floor casements and 2 circa 1985 first floor half dormers with flat roofs. Door at left end is C20. The roof continues over the narrow store at the end and is gable-ended. Rear of main block has only a tiny central stair window at first floor level flanked by recessed rectangular panels. The service block has a narrow half dormer and C19 plank door. Interior: what little carpentry exposed is plain and roughly finished. Some C19 joinery detail. Roof not inspected. Marked as Kennels on OS map.
Listing NGR: SY0459994196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352435
- 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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