Middle Cliston
Middle Cliston, Sampford Courtenay, EX20 2TL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147048
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Cliston
- Statutory Address:
- Middle Cliston, Sampford Courtenay, EX20 2TL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147048
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Cliston
- Statutory Address 1:
- Middle Cliston, Sampford Courtenay, EX20 2TL
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:
- Middle Cliston, Sampford Courtenay, EX20 2TL
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:
- SS 61903 01884
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 February 2024 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SS 60 SW
5/159
SAMPFORD COURTENAY
Middle Cliston
(Formerly listed as The Shaefers)
GV
II
House, formerly farmhouse. Early C17 with C20 alterations. Rendered cob walls. Slate roof gabled to right-hand range hipped to left-hand wing. Three brick stacks, one axial to left-hand wing, one at gable end of right-hand range and one set in from the eaves at the rear of the left-hand wing.
Play: L-shaped plan which all appears to be of the same or a similar date judging from the roof trusses. The left-hand range consists of two rooms which may formerly have had a passage between them - the left-hand room is heated by a rear lateral stack, the right-hand room by an axial fireplace which might formerly have backed onto the passage. The right-hand range probably consisted originally of one room but has now been sub-divided to form a staircase. There is no thick wall between the two wings.
Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical L-shaped two-window front. Tall C20 transomed window to right on first floor and smaller diamond leaded pane two-light C20 casement to left. Row of pigeon holes beyond it. C20 flat-roofed conservatory in angle of two wings. Right-hand wing has small-paned C20 four-light casement on first floor and two-light window below to the right. The rear of this range has a circa late C18 five-light leaded pane casement window with narrow square section mullions.
Interior: the left-hand room has very heavy roughly chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace with a wooden lintel which is chamfered with runout stops. The right-hand room of this range has a very wide fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel which has straight-cut stops.
Roof Structure: one original truss survives over each range both are face-pegged jointed crucks which are not smoke-blackened.
Listing NGR: SS6190301884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93042
- 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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