53 AND 55, NEW STREET
53 AND 55, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147470
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 55, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53 AND 55, NEW STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-09-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/11440/01
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter Read. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147470
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 55, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53 AND 55, NEW STREET
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:
- 53 AND 55, NEW STREET
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:
- SX7011687251
Details
SX 7087
6/156
CHAGFORD
NEW STREET, Chagford
Nos 53 and 55
GV
II
Pair of cottages. Probably late C18 - early C19 with C20 rear extensions. Plastered
granite stone rubble; granite stacks with granite ashlar chimney shafts; slate roof
with pierced crested ridge tiles (probably thatch originally).
Plan: pair of contemporary 1-room plan cottages with a passageway between, and
facing east onto the street. No 53 is that to the right (north) and it has an axial
stack backing onto the passage. No 55, on the left, has a stack in the end wall.
Both originally had winder stairs rising alongside the stacks, and their doors led
off the passage. Both have C20 extensions to rear. No 55 has the extra chamber over
the passage. 2 storeys.
Exterior: overall symmetrical 3-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars.
Central passageway has a solid timber frame containing a C20 plank door and there is
a similar frame at the rear end. Roof butts those of the adjoining properties each
side.
Interior: each ground floor room has a plain soffit-chamfered axial beam and both
fireplaces are blocked by C20 grates. Roof is inaccessible although the feet of the
principals show. Their scantling is large enough to suggest that the A-frame trusses
are original.
It is unusual for a pair of such small cottages to survive so complete. Furthermore
they form part of a group of listed buildings along the west side of New Street.
Listing NGR: SX7011687251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94685
- 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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