Lower Willowray
LOWER WILLOWRAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146793
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Willowray
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER WILLOWRAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146793
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Willowray
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER WILLOWRAY
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 WILLOWRAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Moretonhampstead
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 77917 83043
Details
MORETONHAMPSTEAD SX 78 SE 5/89 Lower Willowray - GV II
House, formerly farmhouse. C17 or earlier. Probably C19 extension at higher end. Granite rubble walls. Thatch roof, hipped to left end, gabled to right, raised above first floor windows. Brick axial stack. Plan probably originally 3-room-and-through-passage, hall stack backing onto passage and removed when in C18/C19 passage and lower end rebuilt as cider house. Gable end fireplace to inner room with a newel staircase to the rear of it. Probably C19 extension to higher end. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, 2 windows to first floor, of 2- and 3- light mid C20 metal frame casements all with diamond leaded panes except for ground floor right of centre which is in a shallow projection and has no glazing bars. Straight joint to right marks the beginning of the extensions. Door to left of centre is C20 plank with timber lintel. To left of centre left window the wall projects in a curve and continues along that line to the left end for the cider house which has wide double doorway to the left and inserted 3-light C20 window to its right. Interior contains some features of interest. Hall has heavy cambered longitudinal beam chamfered with run-out stops and similar half beam at front and rear. Solid wall between hall and inner room which has heavy cross beams chamfered with step stops. Fireplace has chamfered wooden lintel with blocked oven opening in right- hand side. Stone newel staircase at rear of inner room. Roof inaccessible but curved foot of one truss seen likely to be jointed cruck. Lower end survives as cider house with crushing mechanism intact.
Listing NGR: SX7791783043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85024
- 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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