Lower Corscombe
LOWER CORSCOMBE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147004
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Corscombe
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER CORSCOMBE
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- Date:
- 2004-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/12493/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147004
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Corscombe
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER CORSCOMBE
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 CORSCOMBE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sampford Courtenay
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 61929 96138
Details
SAMPFORD COURTENAY SX 69 NW 8/148 Lower Corscombe GV II
House, formerly farmhouse. C17 witn C19 addition. Rendered cob and stone rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. Axial stone rubble stack and rendered brick stack at left gable end. Plan: 3-room and through passage plan with lower end to the left, hall stack backs onto passage. Inner and lower room fireplaces inserted in C19. the inner room may have been partly rebuilt at this time as its front wall projects slightly. Also in C19 an outshut was added along the rear wall and an outbuilding extending from the left-hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of C20 small-paned 3-light casements. C20 stable type door to left of centre. Right-hand side of house projects slightly. Lower barn/shippon attached at left-hand end. Interior: open fireplace in hall has chamfered wooden lintel with granite jamb to right, stone and brick oven in left-hand side and a floor of slates set on edge. Over the window is a re-used chamfered beam with square mortices in its soffit. Small C18 wall cupboard with fielded panel door. Only insubstantial roof timbers which are probably C19.
Listing NGR: SX6192996138
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93031
- 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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