Easton Court Hotel

Easton Court Hotel, Easton Cross

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147022
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Easton Court Hotel
Statutory Address:: Easton Court Hotel, Easton Cross

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147022
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Easton Court Hotel
Statutory Address 1:: Easton Court Hotel, Easton Cross

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Easton Court Hotel, Easton Cross

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Chagford
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX 71934 88768

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details, update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SX 78 NW 4/103

CHAGFORD EASTON CROSS Easton Court Hotel

(Formerly listed as CHAGFORD EASTON Easton Cross Hotel)

GV II

Hotel, former farmhouse. C16 and C17, modernised, enlarged and converted to a hotel circa 1920. Granite stone rubble, some of it plastered; granite stacks, the hall stack with a granite ashlar chimney shaft with moulded coping; thatch roof, slate to outshots and extension.

Plan: the main block has a three-room-and-through-passage plan and faces south-east. It is built down a slight slope with the inner room at the uphill left (south-west) end. It has a rear corner stack (probably C18 but rebuilt in the C20). The hall has a large axial stack backing onto the passage and the service end room has a projecting gable end stack of probably C18 date. It may be that before the C18 this was a Dartmoor longhouse with a shippon in the service end room but there is no positive evidence of this. C19 and C20 outshots along rear and present stair in outshot to rear of hall. Hotel accommodation in a block projecting at right angles to rear of service end room and this was built circa 1920. Since main block roof was not inspected the development of the house cannot be ascertained although it seems probable that it began as some kind of open hall house. Now two storeys throughout.

Exterior: irregular four-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The front passage doorway lies right of centre. It contains a C20 door behind a gabled and thatch roofed porch. The outer arch has a rounded head made from a single piece of granite and inside are stone benches each side. It is thought to be C20 but may be earlier. Roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. The service end chimney shaft is of brick possibly as old as C18 but inner room chimney shaft of C20 brick. The hotel accommodation extension has a regular four-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars.

Interior: only the ground floor rooms were available for inspection at the time of survey. The rear passage doorway is now internal but still retains its C17 oak frame with an ovolo-moulded surround. In the service end room the crossbeam was replaced and the fireplace rebuilt in the early C20. Both hall and inner room have C17 plain soffit-chamfered crossbeams. The hall fireplace has a hollow-chamfered granite jambs and a soffit chamfered oak lintel (possibly a replacement). The inner room fireplace is a C20 rebuild. Roof not available for inspection at the time of survey.

Listing NGR: SX7193488768

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Legacy System number:: 94633
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.