Free Hamlet

FREE HAMLET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1147853
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Free Hamlet
Statutory Address:
FREE HAMLET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1147853
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Free Hamlet
Statutory Address 1:
FREE HAMLET

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FREE HAMLET

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

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Ermington
National Grid Reference:
SX 63909 53271

Details

SX 65 SW ERMINGTON ERMINGTON 5/32 Free Hamlet

II

Farmhouse. C16 with circa C17/18 wing. Roughcast stone rubble. Slurried scantle slate hipped and gable-ended roof. L-shaped on plan. C17/18 two storey south wing, three window range. Sashes with glazing bars. Glazed door to right of centre. C16 wing at rear (north west) with large rendered chimney stack at gable end, and another rendered chimney stack on side wall with moulded granite cap. Nail-studded door to side of stack with moulded wooden door frame. Another moulded door frame at opposite end of cross passage. Interior: Jointed cruck trusses at lower end of north west wing. Also at lower end a massive chamfered ceiling beam. Ground floor room at higher end of north west wing has early C18 fielded panelling with overmantel flanked by round-headed niches with fluted pilasters.

Listing NGR: SX6390653269

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
100313
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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